[Python-Dev] [Python-3000] 2.6.1 and 3.0

[Giovanni Bajo]

On mer, 2008-11-26 at 23:38 +0100, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
> > Merge Modules into your installation
> > Create self-contained MSI packages, by including and configuring the
> > required merge modules.
> 
> Right. Still, if people want to go this route (I personally don't),
> I think it would be useful to build an installer from the free edition.
> You can then run Tools/msi/merge.py, which adds the CRT merge module
> into the MSI file (mostly as-is, except for discarding the ALLUSERS
> property from that merge module). Alternatively, for testing, you can
> just assume that the CRT is already installed.

So, deducing from your reply, this "merge module" is a thing that allows
to install the CRT (and other shared components)? I quickly googled but
I'm not really into the msi slang, so I'm not sure I understood.

> When we then have a script that generates a mostly-complete installer,
> I'm sure Giovanni would be happy to add support for the CRT merge
> module to see how the tool fares (my expectation is that it breaks,
> as I assume it just doesn't deal with the embedded ALLUSERS property
> correctly - merge.py really uses a bad hack here).

Another option is to contact the Advanced Installer vendor and ask for a
free license for the Python Software Foundation. This would mean that
everybody in the world would still be able to build an installer without
CRT, and only PSF would build the official one with CRT bundled. I
personally don't see this as a show-stopper (does anyone ever build
the .msi besides Martin?).
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Giovanni Bajo
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