[Distutils] windows installer and setuptools

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 02:30 PM 10/16/2007 +0200, henk-jan ebbers wrote:
>But aren't python windows installers supposed to be python-version 
>independent?

Not if they contain extensions, or are built by setuptools.

>(but then, I do not understand why a (pure) python egg is version dependent).

1. Because it contains compiled bytecode, which is Python version dependent.
2. Because it may contain different contents or dependencies, based 
on the Python version.

#2 is also why setuptools builds version-dependent bdist_wininst installers.

(By the way, please stop emailing me off-list; I don't support 
setuptools except via the distutils-sig mailing list.)