Re: [Distutils] Remove "current" Windows executables from Lib/distutils/command in svn?

2008-04-07 Thread Christian Heimes
Martin v. Löwis schrieb: > b) IIRC, upx was used to compress these executables. I don't think the >the current build process covers this, yet (but then, the current >binaries might not be compressed with upx anymore, either - not >sure whether that would be a bug). Of course, upx would

Re: [Distutils] Remove "current" Windows executables from Lib/distutils/command in svn?

2008-04-06 Thread Thomas Heller
Martin v. Löwis schrieb: >> I'd like to propose we delete Lib/Distutils/command/wininst-9.0.exe, and >> enable the building of that project by default in the standard build process >> (and I'll setup the x64 build of the executable similarly). > > There are two issues here: > a) how does the binar

[Distutils] Remove "current" Windows executables from Lib/distutils/command in svn?

2008-04-05 Thread Mark Hammond
As I was preparing to check-in my cross-compilation patch, which includes a new x64 executable in the Lib/distutils/command directory, it occurs to me that we don't actually need it in subversion - and nor do we need wininst-9.0.exe. I believe these executables are in svn for historical reasons.