- On formats, I strongly believe that having multiple formats is a
problem. But I need to be clear here - an installer (MSI, wininst) is
a bundle containing executable code (which drives the interface), plus
a chunk of data that is the objects to be installed. (I am
oversimplifying here, but bear with me).
Beyond oversimplifying, I think this is actually wrong: MSI deliberately
is *not* an executable format, but just a "dumb" database, to be
interpreted by the installation routines that are already on the system.
In that sense, it is very similar to pysetup and bdist_simple.
Regards,
Martin
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