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

2014-04-14 Thread Jeff Hardy
On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 9:51 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" 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 ce

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

2014-04-13 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Am 13.04.14 22:02, schrieb Steve Dower: > I replied to the other email before I saw this one. Same here :-) > Consider this my self-nomination to take over, pending a quick email to > Microsoft's lawyers to make sure it's okay (it should be, but IANAL and > they wrote the policy). > > My plan wo

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

2014-04-13 Thread Steve Dower
y Windows Phone From: Martin v. Löwis<mailto:mar...@v.loewis.de> Sent: ‎4/‎13/‎2014 14:29 To: Benjamin Peterson<mailto:benja...@python.org>; python-dev@python.org<mailto:python-dev@python.org> Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] 2.7 Windows installers (Was:

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

2014-04-13 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Am 10.04.14 03:22, schrieb Benjamin Peterson: > We'll keep doing what we're currently doing for another year, making > normal bug fix releases with installers. After that, we _won't_ close > 2.7 to normal bug fixes as is currently implied by the release schedule. After thinking about this plan, I