Thank you all, this gives me what I need. Sorry I missed the source in the the PC/ directory.
Thanks, Van On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 9:41 AM Zachary Ware <zachary.ware+py...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 9:09 AM VanL <van.lindb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am looking into an issue associated with the wininst-*.exe files in > the distutils/command subdirectory. It looks like these are the executable > stubs used to create self-extracting zips for installation - but I am not > 100% sure. It also looks like they include the calls to standard Windows > functions to display the installer window. > > > > I have a couple questions I need help with: > > 1) Am I correct about the function, and if not, what are they? > > You are correct. IIUC, they are checked in to allow creating those > installers from non-Windows platforms. > > > 2) Where did these come from, and where is their source code? > > Source can be found here: > https://github.com/python/cpython/tree/master/PC/bdist_wininst > > The individual checked-in .exe files were each originally built by > whoever updated the Windows toolchain to a new version of MSVC > (Christian Heimes, Brian Curtin, or Steve Dower; though the oldest > ones were added by Thomas Heller, presumably using whatever the > current toolchain(s) was (were) at the time). A few of them have been > rebuilt after bug fixes in the source since they were added, mostly by > the same people, though I also see Mark Hammond and Raymond Hettinger > in the history (and Georg Brandl via svnmerge). I notice that there > are a few very minor code cleanups (the three latest commits here > https://github.com/python/cpython/commits/master/PC/bdist_wininst/install.c > ) > that have not made it into a rebuilt exe yet. > > FTR, we really ought to remove all but the 14.0 version from the > master branch. We don't support building Python with any toolchain > older than 14.0 anymore, and the older toolchains are nigh impossible > to find anymore anyway. > > -- > Zach >
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