[Python-Dev] windist.exe status and license

Thomas Heller theller at python.net
Wed May 19 05:04:27 EDT 2004


(followup to myself)

> Hm, maybe it would be better to *not* compress wininst.exe by upx any
> longer. The uncompressed exe is 57344 bytes, the compressed on 21504
> bytes.  Any bdist_wininst installer would be 36 kB larger, which isn't a
> large deal.

After 5 minutes, it became crystal clear to me that this is the obvious
solution.  Who cares about 36 kB, and that's probably less than the size
of the GPL.

I'll change this for the 2.3.4 release.

Thomas




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