[Python-Dev] [python-committers] [RELEASED] Python 3.5.0a4 is now available

[Paul Moore]

On 20 April 2015 at 09:16, Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org> wrote:
> There is now a third type of Windows installer for Python 3.5.  In addition
> to the conventional installer and the web-based installer, Python 3.5 now
> has an embeddable installer designed to be run as part of a larger
> application's installer for apps using or extending Python.

Probably a question for Steve mostly, but how does this work, exactly?
I see it's an exe - I was sort of expecting a zip file.

Specifically, I was considering using this to make a build of Vim,
with Python support, using a copy of Python included with Vim (so no
reliance on there being a "system" install of Python). As Vim is open
source, "build it yourself", I typically just compile vim and then zip
up the application directory. So I'm not clear how an exe "embeddable"
installer fits into that scheme. Apologies if the exe is just a
self-extracting archive, and the answer is just "run it and tell it
where to dump the files". I've not even had a chance to get to
somewhere I can download the installer to try it yet :-)

Paul