Yeah, I guess it just depends on what's "important".  I do think it's a bad 
idea to remove features users were previously relying on.

On Thursday, January 10, 2013 1:34:32 PM UTC-6, Pierre Raybaut wrote:
>
> Spyder's installer is now built with the standard Python distutils 
> library which implements two kind of installers for Windows: wininst 
> (.exe) and msi (.msi). 
> The wininst format was chosen because: 
> 1. beside its 'exe' header, it's just a zip file (simpler to extract, 
> to explore and so to check if bundled files are all there for example) 
> 2. it supports arbitrary version numbers, like "2.8beta1" (msi only 
> supports X.Y.Z version numbers... which is a limitation!) 
>
> -Pierre 
>
> 2013/1/10 Steve <[email protected] <javascript:>>: 
> > Can you make this a .msi file instead of an .exe?  The msi file supports 
> a 
> > flag to allow silent installs.  The old NSIS installer supported this. 
> > 
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