> It is a surprise to find builtin msilib. Why isn't it used? Originally, because Python needs to be packaged with an older release (in particular one that isn't itself maintained anymore). Today, the problem is that the msilib package doesn't support merge modules (and if such support was added, we would have to wait until the version containing it isn't maintained anymore).
I don't consider the dependency on win32com a serious issue at all; it's just a mild annoyance (much less than reliance on ctypes would be, or hard-coding of symbolic constants). Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
