On 15 October 2011 09:04, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 4:42 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I wish I felt more comfortable with MSI as a format (as opposed to an >> opaque clickable installer). I'd be interested to know what others >> think. > > Compilation can be a problem on Linux systems as well, so a platform > neutral format is a better idea. Just have a mechanism that allows > pysetup to create a bdist_msi from a bdist_simple. Similar, bdist_rpm > and bdist_deb plugins could be taught to interpret bdist_simple. > > However, you do get into architecture problems (x86 vs x86_64 vs ARM) > if you go that route.
Architecture problems are an issue for any binary format, surely? It's the content (the binaries themselves) that are architecture dependent, not the format itself. Paul. _______________________________________________ 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
