[Distutils] The new MSI given by Python 2.7

Marius Gedminas marius at pov.lt
Fri Dec 24 01:49:40 CET 2010


On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 09:29:39PM +0200, cool-RR wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 9:25 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de>wrote:
> > Am 23.12.2010 20:00, schrieb cool-RR:
> > > I'm making a release of my project today, and I noticed that the MSI
> > > created by Python 2.7 when doing `bdist_msi` does not seem to be
> > > attached to a specific Python version.
> > >
> > > Is it safe to supply it for users of Python 2.5-2.7? (My package is
> > > pure-Python.)
> >
> > Yes, that's the intention. The feature has seen little testing so far,
> > so feedback is welcome.
...
> Now I did "any Python version," which worked, and I noted in the comments
> that it's intended for 2.5-2.7. So I guess I'm okay.

You could add

    Programming Language :: Python :: 2.5
    Programming Language :: Python :: 2.6
    Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7

to your classifiers.  (And please also upload an sdist, in case you
haven't done so already.)

Marius Gedminas
-- 
Mosher's Law of Software Engineering:
        Don't worry if it doesn't work right.
        If everything did, you'd be out of a job.
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