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Christian Heimes 5d14c2b8f8 Merged revisions 59056-59076 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r59064 \| christian.heimes \| 2007-11-20 02:48:48 +0100 (Tue, 20 Nov 2007) \| 1 line Fixed bug #1470 ........ r59066 \| martin.v.loewis \| 2007-11-20 03:46:02 +0100 (Tue, 20 Nov 2007) \| 2 lines Patch #1468: Package Lib/test/*.pem. ........ r59068 \| christian.heimes \| 2007-11-20 04:21:02 +0100 (Tue, 20 Nov 2007) \| 1 line Another fix for test_shutil. Martin pointed out that it breaks some build bots ........ r59073 \| nick.coghlan \| 2007-11-20 15:55:57 +0100 (Tue, 20 Nov 2007) \| 1 line Backport some main.c cleanup from the py3k branch ........ r59076 \| amaury.forgeotdarc \| 2007-11-21 00:31:27 +0100 (Wed, 21 Nov 2007) \| 6 lines The incremental decoder for utf-7 must preserve its state between calls. Solves issue1460. Might not be a backport candidate: a new API function was added, and some code may rely on details in utf-7.py. ........		2007-11-20 23:38:09 +00:00
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README.txt	Move msi from sandbox to Tools.	2004-08-22 13:34:34 +00:00
msi.py	Merged revisions 59056-59076 via svnmerge from	2007-11-20 23:38:09 +00:00
msilib.py	Port to Python 3.0.	2007-08-30 15:23:04 +00:00
msisupport.c	Avoid using *W functions on Win95. Backported to 2.4.	2005-02-18 16:18:09 +00:00
msisupport.mak	Add build support for AMD64.	2006-02-14 20:42:55 +00:00
schema.py	Whitespace normalization.	2004-08-22 19:42:56 +00:00
sequence.py	Move msi from sandbox to Tools.	2004-08-22 13:34:34 +00:00
uisample.py	fix typos, mostly in comments	2005-10-28 14:39:47 +00:00
uuids.py	Add uuids for 3.0.	2007-08-30 05:45:17 +00:00

README.txt

Packaging Python as a Microsoft Installer Package (MSI)
=======================================================

Using this library, Python can be packaged as a MS-Windows
MSI file. To generate an installer package, you need
a build tree. By default, the build tree root directory
is assumed to be in "../..". This location can be changed
by adding a file config.py; see the beginning of msi.py
for additional customization options.

The packaging process assumes that binaries have been 
generated according to the instructions in PCBuild/README.txt,
and that you have either Visual Studio or the Platform SDK
installed. In addition, you need the Python COM extensions,
either from PythonWin, or from ActivePython.

To invoke the script, open a cmd.exe window which has 
cabarc.exe in its PATH (e.g. "Visual Studio .NET 2003
Command Prompt"). Then invoke

<path-to-python.exe> msi.py

If everything succeeds, pythonX.Y.Z.msi is generated
in the current directory.