[Python-Dev] Packaging and binary distributions for Python 3.3 (original) (raw)
"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Fri Oct 14 18:46:50 CEST 2011
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- On formats, I strongly believe that having multiple formats is a problem. But I need to be clear here - an installer (MSI, wininst) is a bundle containing executable code (which drives the interface), plus a chunk of data that is the objects to be installed. (I am oversimplifying here, but bear with me).
Beyond oversimplifying, I think this is actually wrong: MSI deliberately is not an executable format, but just a "dumb" database, to be interpreted by the installation routines that are already on the system. In that sense, it is very similar to pysetup and bdist_simple.
Regards, Martin
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