Martin v. Löwis schrieb: >> I'd like to propose we delete Lib/Distutils/command/wininst-9.0.exe, and >> enable the building of that project by default in the standard build process >> (and I'll setup the x64 build of the executable similarly). > > There are two issues here: > a) how does the binary get into the release tarball? You might argue > that it doesn't have to, as it is sufficient when it is included in > the Windows installer, however, as currently implemented, > bdist_wininst also runs on Unix, and people use it that way. > b) IIRC, upx was used to compress these executables. I don't think the > the current build process covers this, yet (but then, the current > binaries might not be compressed with upx anymore, either - not > sure whether that would be a bug). Of course, upx would probably > not currently apply to Win64-amd64.
I did not compress them with upx anymore because of licensing issues with the upx-created executables, but I do not remember the details anymore. Thomas _______________________________________________ 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
