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

2015-04-22 Thread Steve Dower
Whoops, sorry. Yeah, I knew about that behavior, but in hindsight it's obviously going to be a surprise for others :) One plain zip file coming up for the next release. All the binaries will be signed and paranoid people can check the GPG sig and embed their own hashes if not the files themselv

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

2015-04-22 Thread Paul Moore
On 22 April 2015 at 13:45, Paul Moore wrote: > On 21 April 2015 at 23:05, Steve Dower wrote: >> I made it a self-extracting RAR file so it could be signed, but I've already >> had multiple people query it so the next release will probably just be a >> plain ZIP file. I just need to figure out s

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

2015-04-22 Thread Paul Moore
On 21 April 2015 at 23:05, Steve Dower wrote: > I made it a self-extracting RAR file so it could be signed, but I've already > had multiple people query it so the next release will probably just be a > plain ZIP file. I just need to figure out some reliable way of validating the > download othe

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

2015-04-21 Thread Steve Dower
Donald Stufft wrote: > Is this version statically linked by any chance? No, there's no change to the compilation process, so you can get exactly the same result by using the regular installer and copying the files around. Not sure if this is what you're referring to, but on Windows DLLs are alwa

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

2015-04-21 Thread Donald Stufft
> On Apr 21, 2015, at 7:18 PM, Steve Dower wrote: > > Donald Stufft wrote: >> Is this version statically linked by any chance? > > No, there's no change to the compilation process, so you can get exactly the > same result by using the regular installer and copying the files around. > > Not su

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

2015-04-21 Thread Steve Dower
Paul Moore wrote: > On 20 April 2015 at 09:16, Larry Hastings 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 >>

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

2015-04-21 Thread Donald Stufft
> On Apr 21, 2015, at 6:33 PM, Paul Moore wrote: > > On 21 April 2015 at 23:05, Steve Dower wrote: >> It is indeed just a run-and-dump extractor. I haven't had a chance to write >> up any docs for it yet, but there are some open bugs I want to fix first >> (specifically http://bugs.python.org

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

2015-04-21 Thread Paul Moore
On 21 April 2015 at 23:05, Steve Dower wrote: > It is indeed just a run-and-dump extractor. I haven't had a chance to write > up any docs for it yet, but there are some open bugs I want to fix first > (specifically http://bugs.python.org/issue23955) before this becomes too > formalized. Thanks

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

2015-04-21 Thread Paul Moore
On 20 April 2015 at 09:16, Larry Hastings 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