Starting work on Windows installer for 2.0 today

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Ian Clatworthy wrote:
> As I feel strongly about the need for a better Windows installer (and I
> was unable to coax someone else into doing the work!), I'm going to get
> started on this today. Hopefully, we'll have a nicer installer ready for
> testing early next week.
> 
> I can't find a document in our developer catalog explaining how to build
> the current installer. Is there one somewhere?
> 
> If anyone has any tips or tricks related to this, now is a good time for
> me to hear about them.
> 
> Ian C.
> 
> 

Getting a working environment is rather tricky. Once you have it,
building the actual installer is just:
  make installer-all PYTHON=/cygdrive/c/Python25/python

Which builds all of the installers (standalone, + existing python install).

It doesn't yet build the 'nonadmin' self-extracting executable. Though
for that, I just use 7zip and compress the 'win32_bzr.exe' directory.

John
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