Re: [Python-Dev] wininst-*.exe files in Lib/distutils/command

2018-10-22 Thread Petr Viktorin
On 10/18/18 7:44 PM, VanL wrote: Primarily for non-windows platforms, but I also think for Windows users without any compilers or similar tools installed. There is also some discussion of removing some of the older toolchain-specific versions (leaving only -14), but that is a subject for anothe

Re: [Python-Dev] wininst-*.exe files in Lib/distutils/command

2018-10-18 Thread VanL
Primarily for non-windows platforms, but I also think for Windows users without any compilers or similar tools installed. There is also some discussion of removing some of the older toolchain-specific versions (leaving only -14), but that is a subject for another day. Also I am not sure that bug r

Re: [Python-Dev] wininst-*.exe files in Lib/distutils/command

2018-10-18 Thread Petr Viktorin
On 10/18/18 4:40 PM, Zachary Ware wrote: On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 9:09 AM VanL wrote: Hi all, I am looking into an issue associated with the wininst-*.exe files in the distutils/command subdirectory. It looks like these are the executable stubs used to create self-extracting zips for installa

Re: [Python-Dev] wininst-*.exe files in Lib/distutils/command

2018-10-18 Thread VanL
Thank you all, this gives me what I need. Sorry I missed the source in the the PC/ directory. Thanks, Van On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 9:41 AM Zachary Ware wrote: > On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 9:09 AM VanL wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am looking into an issue associated with the wininst-*.exe files in

Re: [Python-Dev] wininst-*.exe files in Lib/distutils/command

2018-10-18 Thread Zachary Ware
On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 9:09 AM VanL wrote: > Hi all, > > I am looking into an issue associated with the wininst-*.exe files in the > distutils/command subdirectory. It looks like these are the executable stubs > used to create self-extracting zips for installation - but I am not 100% > sure. I

Re: [Python-Dev] wininst-*.exe files in Lib/distutils/command

2018-10-18 Thread Paul Moore
They are for the distutils bdist_wininst command (mostly obsolete now, wheels are the preferred binary distribution format these days). The source appears to be in PC\bdist_wininst in the CPython repository. Paul On Thu, 18 Oct 2018 at 15:10, VanL wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am looking into an issue