Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes: > 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>". Sure, but on Windows, you have bdist_wininst, which isn't any more difficult to use, and far superior. People building distutils packages for Windows appreciate the fancy-without-efforts installer (I'm one of those people myself); I would never consider using bdist_dumb on Windows. In fact, I thought it was meant for systems like Solaris, where the native packaging is not supported. Of course, on Solaris, I would expect to get a .tar.gz, not a .zip. So even though I do use binutils binary packages, I would not suffer from losing bdist_dumb, and I can't imagine anybody who would. Regards, Martin
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