[issue30251] Windows Visual Studio solution does not have an install target

[Stephen Kelly]

New submission from Stephen Kelly:

The Windows Visual Studio solution does not have an install target. As far as I 
understand, the configure system used on Unix does have an install target.

That means that on Windows, binaries resulting from the build to not end up in 
the same layout as result from using the official installer. 

Third party modules expect the same layout. For example, Sip/PyQt requires it 
https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/pipermail/pyqt/2017-April/039109.html . 
There are probably other modules similarly affected.

I don't know what else an install target should do, but I note its absence.

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nosy: steveire
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Windows Visual Studio solution does not have an install target
versions: Python 3.6

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[issue30251] Windows Visual Studio solution does not have an install target

[Terry J. Reedy]

Changes by Terry J. Reedy :


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components: +Windows
nosy: +paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware

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[issue30251] Windows Visual Studio solution does not have an install target

[Steve Dower]

Steve Dower added the comment:

Visual Studio has some deployment concepts, but for multi-project solutions 
like ours you would generally have a separate project. It's a build tool, not 
an install tool, and mixing the concepts is generally a bad idea.

For building an installer, these projects are in tools/msi.

For doing a quick layout, we could write a script to simply copy files around. 
There are scripts in Tools/msi that do some of this already that could be 
adapted.

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[issue30251] Windows Visual Studio solution does not have an install target

[Steve Dower]

Changes by Steve Dower :


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versions: +Python 3.7 -Python 3.6

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[issue30251] Windows Visual Studio solution does not have an install target

[Steve Dower]

Changes by Steve Dower :


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resolution:  -> not a bug
stage:  -> resolved
status: open -> closed

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[issue30251] Windows Visual Studio solution does not have an install target

[Stephen Kelly]

Stephen Kelly added the comment:

This is resolved as not a bug.

Is there a way to convert it to a feature request?

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[issue30251] Windows Visual Studio solution does not have an install target

[Steve Dower]

Steve Dower added the comment:

Sure, but then I'll resolve it as rejected :)

The solution does not need an install target. That's not the point - we have 
separate projects and scripts for that.

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