[Distutils] Re: Python 3.7.4 MSI

2019-09-09 Thread Steve Dower
While this is technically true, your chances of getting it to work are very slim. If you have a need for an MSI, my best suggestion right now is to take one of our distributions (the package at https://www.nuget.org/packages/python is likely easiest) and use a tool to generate one from that.

[Distutils] Re: Python 3.7.4 MSI

2019-09-09 Thread Tzu-ping Chung
FWIW, individual msi files are still available on python.org, e.g. (for 3.7.4 64-bit) https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.7.4/amd64/ This is essentially how the web-based installer works. Those msi files map quite nicely to individual options of the exe wrapper, so it shouldn’t be too difficult

[Distutils] Re: Python 3.7.4 MSI

2019-09-09 Thread Paul Moore
Correct. The installer technology used for the python.org builds changed some time ago (I think Python 3.4 was the last version to use an MSI installer). Paul On Mon, 9 Sep 2019 at 15:25, Renegad3 Kay wrote: > > Greetings! > > my organization uses Python across it's departments but the recent ve

[Distutils] Python 3.7.4 MSI

2019-09-09 Thread Renegad3 Kay
Greetings! my organization uses Python across it's departments but the recent versions of Python do NOT have an MSI download. We use SCCM for deployment of software and because the downloads are all .exe based, the program is no longer in compliance with my organization's security policies. I've l