"Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > David Abrahams wrote: >> Who knows what the whiny babies will accept? That said, I think >> people would be happy with a .zip file containing whatever is built by >> selecting the debug build in the VS project and asking it to build >> everything. (**) > > I would go a step further than Tim: Send me (*) a patch to msi.py (which > is used to build the distribution) that picks up the files and packages > them in the desired way, and I will include the files it outputs > in the official distribution. This is how the libpython24.a got in > (and this is also the way in which it will get out again).
Not to look a gift horse in the mouth, but won't that cause the problem that Tim was worried about, i.e. a bloated Python installer? > In the patch, preferably state whom to contact for the specific feature, > as I won't be able to answer questions about it. > > I don't have a personal need for the feature (I do have debug builds > myself, and it takes only 10 minutes or so to create them), I know, me too. It's easy enough once you get started building Python. I just think it's too big a hump for many people. > so I won't even have a way to test whether the feature works > correctly. > > Regards, > Martin > > (*) that is, sf.net/projects/python I s'pose that means, "put it in the patches tracker." grateful-ly y'rs, -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
