[Python-Dev] [python-committers] [RELEASED] Python 3.5.0a4 is now available (original) (raw)

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Tue Apr 21 22:13:11 CEST 2015

On 20 April 2015 at 09:16, Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org> wrote:

There is now a third type of Windows installer for Python 3.5. In addition to the conventional installer and the web-based installer, Python 3.5 now has an embeddable installer designed to be run as part of a larger application's installer for apps using or extending Python.

Probably a question for Steve mostly, but how does this work, exactly? I see it's an exe - I was sort of expecting a zip file.

Specifically, I was considering using this to make a build of Vim, with Python support, using a copy of Python included with Vim (so no reliance on there being a "system" install of Python). As Vim is open source, "build it yourself", I typically just compile vim and then zip up the application directory. So I'm not clear how an exe "embeddable" installer fits into that scheme. Apologies if the exe is just a self-extracting archive, and the answer is just "run it and tell it where to dump the files". I've not even had a chance to get to somewhere I can download the installer to try it yet :-)

Paul

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