[Python-Dev] MSI Documentation (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Thu Jul 29 21:06:07 CEST 2004


Mark Hammond wrote:

That looks nice (even though I misread your email and thought I would be looking at documentation on building the MSI.)

I'm willing to work on this, but I need some guidance. As you might have seen, I have now added notion of a config.py which controls how the MSI is built. This gives independence from the source directory, and allows for multiple check-outs of the msi directory, each for a different Python build and version (I have currently two of them: one for 2.4, and one for 2.4-Itanium). This config.py is documented in msi.py.

As for more documentation on the mechanisms of msi.py itself: I have asked a colleague to go through the file and comment on parts of Python code that might be unclear. However, I have the concern that all his questions are likely answered in MSDN - so I'd be really curious what documentation is lacking that is not part of MSDN.

Regards, Martin



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