[Python-Dev] Re: Stability and change (original) (raw)

Aahz aahz@pythoncraft.com
Wed, 10 Apr 2002 00:36:29 -0400

On Tue, Apr 09, 2002, Skip Montanaro wrote:

The only way a significant change in the development model is going to work is if the effort necessary to generate micro releases drops drastically. If churning out a binary installer suitable for a development branch can be reduced to a few minutes, fine. If not, then I suspect either someone else will have to take that task over from Tim or Windows installers won't get cut for development point releases.

Seems to me that for dev releases, there's no need for a "Windows installer". A zip file that contains the necessary install tree ought to be sufficient.

There will still need to be the effort of convincing people to download those releases, but I think (based on my mindset) that it will actually be easier because there won't be any worries about mucking with the registry.

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