[issue28467] Installer should be a 64-bit executable

[Steve Dower]

Steve Dower added the comment:

You can also modify the "python36._pth" file in the embedded distro to include 
"import site" if you want all the stuff that comes with that.

The intent of the embeddable distribution is to be a private dependency of a 
larger application, where you typically won't want the site module. 

It is also intended to be a developer resource that is extracted by the dev, 
modified, and then put into another installer - it's not meant to be 
automatically extracted and used on a target machine. Modifying the ._pth file 
is therefore "acceptable" given the purpose.

I've closed this as an issue. Hopefully I can convince the Nano Server guys to 
blog again (they did once before at 
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/pythonengineering/2016/06/20/python-and-django-on-nano-server/)

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[issue28467] Installer should be a 64-bit executable

[John Taylor]

John Taylor added the comment:

python-3.6.0b2-embed-amd64.zip will load the interpreter as is easy to install. 
 The Python Embedded Distribution documentation mentions needing ucrtbase.dll, 
which is already installed on Nano Server.

One small pain point is that ctrl-z seems to exit/suspend the docker container 
and drop you back to the host.  Under the normal, non-embedded python, you can 
just run exit() to quit the interpreter.  Since this option is not available 
under the embedded version, you have to import sys; sys.exit() to quit the 
interpreter under Nano Server.  Also, there is no pip.exe.

Thank you for the information regarding MSI which I was not aware of.  Upon 
further consideration, I believe this issue can be closed because the embedded 
distribution works on Nano Server.

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[issue28467] Installer should be a 64-bit executable

[Steve Dower]

Steve Dower added the comment:

Last time I spoke with the Nano Server team (admittedly this was 6-12 months 
ago) they had no plans to support MSI at all. Even though our installer is an 
exe, under the covers it is installing MSIs.

We discussed this and decided the best approach would be to install locally and 
then copy the install directory, as Nano Server already includes all the 
required dependencies. There are also packages on nuget that can install Python 
that should work fine.

However, as I'm a little out of date, please let me know if Nano Server has 
actually added support for MSIs and I can look into it.

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[issue28467] Installer should be a 64-bit executable

[Zachary Ware]

Changes by Zachary Ware :


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[issue28467] Installer should be a 64-bit executable

[Eryk Sun]

Changes by Eryk Sun :


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nosy: +paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden
versions: +Python 3.7

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[issue28467] Installer should be a 64-bit executable

[Stéphane Wirtel]

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[issue28467] Installer should be a 64-bit executable

[John Taylor]

New submission from John Taylor:

The python-3.6.0b2-amd64.exe binary installs the 64-bit version of python, but 
the binary itself is only 32-bit.  I would like this to be a 64-bit binary so 
that Python can easily be installed on Windows Server 2016 Nano Server.  Since 
this OS version will only execute 64-bit binaries, Python can not be installed 
even with the /quiet option.

Ideally, I would like to be able to install Python with this command:

python-3.6.0b2-amd64.exe /quiet targetdir=C:\Python36

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messages: 278844
nosy: jftuga
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Installer should be a 64-bit executable
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.6

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