[Python-Dev] release for 2.1.2, plus 2.2.1...

[Guido van Rossum]

> [Guido]
> > I'm guessing you'll also need Fred's help to roll out the docs (are
> > there going to be 2.1.2 docs?) and Tim's for the windows installer
> > (which may be a bit of a pain since we've switched installer builders
> > for 2.2).
> 
[Tim]
> Ouch.  More than a bit -- I'd have to find the old Wise floppy first (it's
> not on my disk anymore).  But the 16-bit installer is itself "a bug" (often
> doesn't work) on the recent MS high-end OSes (2000 and XP), so creating
> another of those is a dubious exercise.  We were probably shipping different
> versions of expat and/or zlib on Windows for 2.1 too (but at least I can
> suck those binaries out of an installed 2.1 -- or was Windows 2.1 compiled
> with a binary-incompatible MSVC 5?).  Etc.  If I do this, it's going to
> consume at least a day to straighten out all the issues.

2.1 was solidly MSVC 6, so I don't think there were any MSVC 5 issues.

Would it be a problem if we used the new installer for 2.1.2?  That
would be much easier on Tim.  There are still some issues (e.g. expat)
but I'm not qualified to rule on those.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)