David Abrahams wrote:
Is the instruction at http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel/inst/tweak-flags.html#SECTION00062200000... still relevant? I am not 100% certain I didn't make one myself, but it looks to me as though my Windows Python 2.4.1 distro came with a libpython24.a. I am asking here because it seems only the person who prepares the installer would know.
That impression might be incorrect: I can tell you when I started including libpython24.a, but I have no clue whether the instructions you refer to are correct - I don't use the file myself at all.
If this is true, in which version was it introduced?
It was introduced in 1.20/1.16.2.4 of Tools/msi/msi.py in response to patch #1088716; this in turn was first used to release r241c1. Regards, Martin