[Python-Dev] 2.7 Windows installers (Was: death to 2.7; long live 2.7)

[Jeff Hardy]

On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 9:51 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> As I just said: to get started, run the current build process. Without
> knowing WiX in detail, I'd still claim that msi.py is superiour in
> terms of expressiveness (i.e. it can better compute what files go into
> the MSI). I'm almost certain that you need a full programming language
> to actually perform the entire build; one alternative to msi.py would
> be to have a Python script generating the WiX configuration files.

FWIW, that's exactly what IronPython does - most of the files are
fixed, but there are scripts to generate inclusions for the stdlib.
WiX and MSBuild are pretty powerful combo, even if the excess of
stabby brackets makes *me* stabby after a while.

- Jeff