Re: Is there some reason that recent Windows 3.6 releases don't included executable nor msi installers?

2020-06-07 Thread Peter J. Holzer
On 2020-05-28 20:51:59 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 5/28/2020 5:20 PM, Peter J. Holzer wrote: [The final "security-only" releases are source-only] > > This seems a rather odd policy to me. > > Not if one considers the intended users. > Do you prefer we not make these releases? No, of couse

Re: Is there some reason that recent Windows 3.6 releases don't included executable nor msi installers?

2020-05-29 Thread Adam Preble
On Friday, May 29, 2020 at 7:30:32 AM UTC-5, Eryk Sun wrote: > On 5/28/20, Adam Preble wrote: > Sometimes a user will open a script via "open with" and browse to > python.exe or py.exe. This associates .py files with a new progid that > doesn't pass the %* command-line arguments. > > The

Re: Is there some reason that recent Windows 3.6 releases don't included executable nor msi installers?

2020-05-29 Thread Mats Wichmann
On 5/28/20 3:20 PM, Peter J. Holzer wrote: > On 2020-05-23 13:22:26 -0600, Mats Wichmann wrote: >> On 5/23/20 12:23 AM, Adam Preble wrote: >>> I wanted to update from 3.6.8 on Windows without necessarily moving >>> on to 3.7+ (yet), so I thought I'd try 3.6.9 or 3.6.10. >>> >>> All I see for both

Re: Is there some reason that recent Windows 3.6 releases don't included executable nor msi installers?

2020-05-29 Thread Eryk Sun
On 5/28/20, Adam Preble wrote: > > We had found what looked like a bug in the Python Launcher where it would > eat command line arguments meant for the script. I would find some stuff > missing from sys.argv in a script that just imports sys and prints out > sys.argv if I ran it directly in

Re: Is there some reason that recent Windows 3.6 releases don't included executable nor msi installers?

2020-05-28 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 3:15 PM Mike Dewhirst wrote: > > On 29/05/2020 12:26 pm, Chris Angelico wrote: > > On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 11:57 AM Mike Dewhirst > > wrote: > >> I am an example > >> > >> I installed all the Pythons on my Windows 10 dev machine (locked into > >> Windows by having

Re: Is there some reason that recent Windows 3.6 releases don't included executable nor msi installers?

2020-05-28 Thread Mike Dewhirst
On 29/05/2020 2:59 pm, Dieter Maurer wrote: Mike Dewhirst wrote at 2020-5-29 11:55 +1000: On 29/05/2020 10:51 am, Terry Reedy wrote: ... Source only releases only block Windows/Mac users who choose not to upgrade to a released installer and who cannot or choose not to compile. I am an example

Re: Is there some reason that recent Windows 3.6 releases don't included executable nor msi installers?

2020-05-28 Thread Mike Dewhirst
On 29/05/2020 12:26 pm, Chris Angelico wrote: On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 11:57 AM Mike Dewhirst wrote: I am an example I installed all the Pythons on my Windows 10 dev machine (locked into Windows by having clients) but I'm also locked into Python 3.6.9 on my Ubuntu 18.04 production machines.

Re: Is there some reason that recent Windows 3.6 releases don't included executable nor msi installers?

2020-05-28 Thread Dieter Maurer
Mike Dewhirst wrote at 2020-5-29 11:55 +1000: >On 29/05/2020 10:51 am, Terry Reedy wrote: > ... >> Source only releases only block Windows/Mac users who choose not to >> upgrade to a released installer and who cannot or choose not to compile. > >I am an example > >I installed all the Pythons on my

Re: Is there some reason that recent Windows 3.6 releases don't included executable nor msi installers?

2020-05-28 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 1:46 PM Adam Preble wrote: > I'm now concerned about how long we have with 3.6 because people clearly > want us to move on even beyond that. I look online and the official support > window for it ends at the end of next year, but it looks like the real > support window for

Re: Is there some reason that recent Windows 3.6 releases don't included executable nor msi installers?

2020-05-28 Thread Adam Preble
On Thursday, May 28, 2020 at 7:57:04 PM UTC-5, Terry Reedy wrote: > The OP is so far choosing to not use an installer with those fixes. By > not doing so, he is missing out on the maybe 2000 non-security fixes and > some enhancements that likely would benefit him more than maybe 50 > mostly

Re: Is there some reason that recent Windows 3.6 releases don't included executable nor msi installers?

2020-05-28 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 11:57 AM Mike Dewhirst wrote: > > I am an example > > I installed all the Pythons on my Windows 10 dev machine (locked into > Windows by having clients) but I'm also locked into Python 3.6.9 on my > Ubuntu 18.04 production machines. Be careful of assuming too much here.

Re: Is there some reason that recent Windows 3.6 releases don't included executable nor msi installers?

2020-05-28 Thread Mike Dewhirst
On 29/05/2020 10:51 am, Terry Reedy wrote: On 5/28/2020 5:20 PM, Peter J. Holzer wrote: On 2020-05-23 13:22:26 -0600, Mats Wichmann wrote: On 5/23/20 12:23 AM, Adam Preble wrote: I wanted to update from 3.6.8 on Windows without necessarily moving on to 3.7+ (yet), so I thought I'd try 3.6.9

Re: Is there some reason that recent Windows 3.6 releases don't included executable nor msi installers?

2020-05-28 Thread Terry Reedy
On 5/28/2020 5:20 PM, Peter J. Holzer wrote: On 2020-05-23 13:22:26 -0600, Mats Wichmann wrote: On 5/23/20 12:23 AM, Adam Preble wrote: I wanted to update from 3.6.8 on Windows without necessarily moving on to 3.7+ (yet), so I thought I'd try 3.6.9 or 3.6.10. All I see for both are source

Re: Is there some reason that recent Windows 3.6 releases don't included executable nor msi installers?

2020-05-28 Thread Peter J. Holzer
On 2020-05-23 13:22:26 -0600, Mats Wichmann wrote: > On 5/23/20 12:23 AM, Adam Preble wrote: > > I wanted to update from 3.6.8 on Windows without necessarily moving > > on to 3.7+ (yet), so I thought I'd try 3.6.9 or 3.6.10. > > > > All I see for both are source archives: [...] > > During the

Re: Is there some reason that recent Windows 3.6 releases don't included executable nor msi installers?

2020-05-23 Thread Mats Wichmann
On 5/23/20 12:23 AM, Adam Preble wrote: > I wanted to update from 3.6.8 on Windows without necessarily moving on to > 3.7+ (yet), so I thought I'd try 3.6.9 or 3.6.10. > > All I see for both are source archives: > > https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-369/ >

Re: Is there some reason that recent Windows 3.6 releases don't included executable nor msi installers?

2020-05-23 Thread Souvik Dutta
And that there are no files for an installer. Souvik flutter dev On Sat, May 23, 2020, 4:04 PM Souvik Dutta wrote: > If you take a look at this page then you will find out that 3.6.10 was not > intended to be used in windows... > https://www.python.org/downloads/windows/ > > Souvik flutter dev

Re: Is there some reason that recent Windows 3.6 releases don't included executable nor msi installers?

2020-05-23 Thread Souvik Dutta
If you take a look at this page then you will find out that 3.6.10 was not intended to be used in windows... https://www.python.org/downloads/windows/ Souvik flutter dev On Sat, May 23, 2020, 11:55 AM Adam Preble wrote: > I wanted to update from 3.6.8 on Windows without necessarily moving on

Is there some reason that recent Windows 3.6 releases don't included executable nor msi installers?

2020-05-23 Thread Adam Preble
I wanted to update from 3.6.8 on Windows without necessarily moving on to 3.7+ (yet), so I thought I'd try 3.6.9 or 3.6.10. All I see for both are source archives: https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-369/ https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3610/ So, uh, I