On Wed, Apr 10, 2002, Tim Peters wrote: > >> 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. > > The Windows install tree is a radical rearrangement of the Windows build > tree: building an installer and running it is the fastest way to build an > install tree. Building a zip file on top of that would actually take more > time (BTW, the Windows installer .exe *is* a kind of standard zip file: you > can open it directly with WinZip and browse its contents). Ah. Okay, is shipping a zip of the build tree (plus a couple of MSVCRT libraries) sufficient to run Python? Would that be any less effort? -- Aahz (aahz@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "There are times when effort is important and necessary, but this should not be taken as any kind of moral imperative." --jdecker
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