[pygtk] ANNOUNCE: PyGTK 2.22 (and Friends) Windows Installers

[Alessandro Dentella]

On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 12:17:00AM +1300, John Stowers wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have updated the official Windows installers for Pycairo, PyGObject and PyGTK.
> 
> These installers have been tested on XP, Vista and Windows 7. Versions
> supporting Python 2.6 and Python 2.7 are provided. The installers can
> be downloaded from

Thanks John. May I ask why you produce and upload to ftp.gnome.org only .exe
installers rather than .msi that are considered the best ones even by
distutils docs [1]:

   In most cases, the bdist_msi installer is a better choice than the
   bdist_wininst installer, because it provides better support for Win64
   platforms, allows administrators to perform non-interactive installations,
   and allows installation through group policies.

That would also go towards the possibility to create a batch
installation. By the way Dieter Verfaillie has already produced them and
posted the URL for these to this list [2]


sandro
*:-)


[1] http://docs.python.org/distutils/apiref.html#module-distutils.command.bdist
[2] http://www.optionexplicit.be/projects/gnome-windows/20101102/


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