Just helped some people on the Italian Python mailing list find some indispensable tool (Tools/i18n/pygettext.py, in this specific case) and they expressed astonishment that the tool isn't in the standard Windows binary distribution, which was all they had downloaded. This set me to wondering -- is there any reason why this and other tools &c should NOT be included in that binary? Could we add them in 2.2.2 and later releases?
Good idea. I think it was a simple oversight -- adding anything from the Tools directory is not automatic, Tim has to add lines to the Windows installer script. I believe that the following Tools subdirectories are currently being distributed: idle scripts webchecker versioncheck pynche That means these are not: audiopy (Solaris only) bgen (only used by Mac developers AFAIK) compiler (experimental AFAIK) faqwiz (only useful for people running web servers) framer (new in 2.3) freeze (only useful for developers?) i18n modulator (only useful for developers) unicode (only useful for developers?) world Of these, I think i18n and world are candidates for inclusion on the Windows installer. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)