On 3 October 2012 17:34, R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com> wrote: > There *were* bug reports during the alpha phase. A number of regressions > were caught. Also, there were more alpha-phase bug reports than > I remember getting for 3.2. I remember thinking, "wow, cool, we're > actually getting regression bug reports during the alpha phase, people > must actually be testing this time".
One possibly-relevant point is that I caught some bugs in packaging that could only be properly investigated from an installer-based build. The source build layout on Windows is different, and it mattered to packaging. (Arguably, that itself was a bug in packaging, and it shouldn't have mattered, but nevertheless). As far as I can tell, it is *not* possible (in any practical sense) to create a production-layout install on Windows without building the MSIs (which definitely takes installing extra tools and things to complete - more than I ever managed to do successfully). 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
