[Python-Dev] [Python-3000] 2.6.1 and 3.0 (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Wed Nov 26 23:38:54 CET 2008

Merge Modules into your installation Create self-contained MSI packages, by including and configuring the required merge modules.

Right. Still, if people want to go this route (I personally don't), I think it would be useful to build an installer from the free edition. You can then run Tools/msi/merge.py, which adds the CRT merge module into the MSI file (mostly as-is, except for discarding the ALLUSERS property from that merge module). Alternatively, for testing, you can just assume that the CRT is already installed.

When we then have a script that generates a mostly-complete installer, I'm sure Giovanni would be happy to add support for the CRT merge module to see how the tool fares (my expectation is that it breaks, as I assume it just doesn't deal with the embedded ALLUSERS property correctly - merge.py really uses a bad hack here).

Regards, Martin

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