[Python-Dev] Python for windows. (original) (raw)

Mark Hammond mhammond at skippinet.com.au
Wed Nov 26 23:31:29 CET 2008

Martin writes:

> c:\program files\python\lib\distutils\command\wininst-8.0.exe

Hmm. These binaries are not meant to be run as executables themselves. Instead, they are meant to be integrated into setup programs as-is. wininst-6.0.exe, in particular, is created by MSVC 6.0, which isn't even capable of dealing with manifests. Would it help compliance if we renamed them into .dat, so that the conformance test doesn't recognize them as .exe files?

That is probably a good idea regardless of the outcome of this discussion.

Cheers,

Mark

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