> In the commentary attached to bug #410541, I suggest removing the > bdist_dumb command, because no interesting platforms actually install > from zip files. > > Are there any platforms Python supports, such as Slackware, BeOS, > AtheOS, or whatever, where the convention is to do binary > installations from .zip files? Any objections to killing bdist_dumb? Aren't zipfiles used as el-cheapo installers on Windows? I've seen plenty of stuff that was distributed as a simple zipfile, with instructions "unpack <here>". --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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