[Python-Dev] Packaging and binary distributions for Python 3.3 (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sat Oct 15 10:04:05 CEST 2011

On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 4:42 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

I wish I felt more comfortable with MSI as a format (as opposed to an opaque clickable installer). I'd be interested to know what others think.

Compilation can be a problem on Linux systems as well, so a platform neutral format is a better idea. Just have a mechanism that allows pysetup to create a bdist_msi from a bdist_simple. Similar, bdist_rpm and bdist_deb plugins could be taught to interpret bdist_simple.

However, you do get into architecture problems (x86 vs x86_64 vs ARM) if you go that route.

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia

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