cpython/Tools/msi
Thomas Wouters b213704f3c Merged revisions 53451-53537 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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  r53454 | brett.cannon | 2007-01-15 20:12:08 +0100 (Mon, 15 Jan 2007) | 3 lines

  Add a note for strptime that just because strftime supports some extra
  directive that is not documented that strptime will as well.
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  r53458 | vinay.sajip | 2007-01-16 10:50:07 +0100 (Tue, 16 Jan 2007) | 1 line

  Updated rotating file handlers to use _open().
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  r53459 | marc-andre.lemburg | 2007-01-16 14:03:06 +0100 (Tue, 16 Jan 2007) | 2 lines

  Add news items for the recent pybench and platform changes.
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  r53460 | sjoerd.mullender | 2007-01-16 17:42:38 +0100 (Tue, 16 Jan 2007) | 4 lines

  Fixed ntpath.expandvars to not replace references to non-existing
  variables with nothing.  Also added tests.
  This fixes bug #494589.
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  r53464 | neal.norwitz | 2007-01-17 07:23:51 +0100 (Wed, 17 Jan 2007) | 1 line

  Give Calvin Spealman access for python-dev summaries.
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  r53465 | neal.norwitz | 2007-01-17 09:37:26 +0100 (Wed, 17 Jan 2007) | 1 line

  Remove Calvin since he only has access to the website currently.
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  r53466 | thomas.heller | 2007-01-17 10:40:34 +0100 (Wed, 17 Jan 2007) | 2 lines

  Replace C++ comments with C comments.
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  r53472 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-01-17 20:55:06 +0100 (Wed, 17 Jan 2007) | 1 line

  [Part of bug #1599254] Add suggestion to Mailbox docs to use Maildir, and warn user to lock/unlock mailboxes when modifying them
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  r53475 | georg.brandl | 2007-01-17 22:09:04 +0100 (Wed, 17 Jan 2007) | 2 lines

  Bug #1637967: missing //= operator in list.
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  r53477 | georg.brandl | 2007-01-17 22:19:58 +0100 (Wed, 17 Jan 2007) | 2 lines

  Bug #1629125: fix wrong data type (int -> Py_ssize_t) in PyDict_Next docs.
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  r53481 | neal.norwitz | 2007-01-18 06:40:58 +0100 (Thu, 18 Jan 2007) | 1 line

  Try reverting part of r53145 that seems to cause the Windows buildbots to fail in test_uu.UUFileTest.test_encode
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  r53482 | fred.drake | 2007-01-18 06:42:30 +0100 (Thu, 18 Jan 2007) | 1 line

  add missing version entry
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  r53483 | neal.norwitz | 2007-01-18 07:20:55 +0100 (Thu, 18 Jan 2007) | 7 lines

  This test doesn't pass on Windows.  The cause seems to be that chmod
  doesn't support the same funcationality as on Unix.  I'm not sure if
  this fix is the best (or if it will even work)--it's a test to see
  if the buildbots start passing again.

  It might be better to not even run this test if it's windows (or non-posix).
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  r53488 | neal.norwitz | 2007-01-19 06:53:33 +0100 (Fri, 19 Jan 2007) | 1 line

  SF #1635217, Fix unbalanced paren
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  r53489 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-01-19 07:42:22 +0100 (Fri, 19 Jan 2007) | 3 lines

  Prefix AST symbols with _Py_. Fixes #1637022.
  Will backport.
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  r53497 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-01-19 19:01:38 +0100 (Fri, 19 Jan 2007) | 2 lines

  Add UUIDs for 2.5.1 and 2.5.2
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  r53499 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-01-19 19:07:18 +0100 (Fri, 19 Jan 2007) | 1 line

  SF# 1635892:  Fix docs for betavariate's input parameters .
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  r53503 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-01-20 15:05:39 +0100 (Sat, 20 Jan 2007) | 2 lines

  Merge 53501 and 53502 from 25 branch:
  Add /GS- for AMD64 and Itanium builds where missing.
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  r53504 | walter.doerwald | 2007-01-20 18:28:31 +0100 (Sat, 20 Jan 2007) | 2 lines

  Port test_resource.py to unittest.
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  r53505 | walter.doerwald | 2007-01-20 19:19:33 +0100 (Sat, 20 Jan 2007) | 2 lines

  Add argument tests an calls of resource.getrusage().
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  r53506 | walter.doerwald | 2007-01-20 20:03:17 +0100 (Sat, 20 Jan 2007) | 2 lines

  resource.RUSAGE_BOTH might not exist.
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  r53507 | walter.doerwald | 2007-01-21 00:07:28 +0100 (Sun, 21 Jan 2007) | 2 lines

  Port test_new.py to unittest.
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  r53508 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-01-21 10:33:07 +0100 (Sun, 21 Jan 2007) | 2 lines

  Patch #1610575: Add support for _Bool to struct.
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  r53509 | georg.brandl | 2007-01-21 11:28:43 +0100 (Sun, 21 Jan 2007) | 3 lines

  Bug #1486663: don't reject keyword arguments for subclasses of builtin
  types.
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  r53511 | georg.brandl | 2007-01-21 11:35:10 +0100 (Sun, 21 Jan 2007) | 2 lines

  Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
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  r53517 | georg.brandl | 2007-01-22 20:40:21 +0100 (Mon, 22 Jan 2007) | 3 lines

  Use new email module names (#1637162, #1637159, #1637157).
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  r53518 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-01-22 21:26:40 +0100 (Mon, 22 Jan 2007) | 1 line

  Improve pattern used for mbox 'From' lines; add a simple test
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  r53519 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-01-22 21:27:50 +0100 (Mon, 22 Jan 2007) | 1 line

  Make comment match the code
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  r53522 | georg.brandl | 2007-01-22 22:10:33 +0100 (Mon, 22 Jan 2007) | 2 lines

  Bug #1249573: fix rfc822.parsedate not accepting a certain date format
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  r53524 | georg.brandl | 2007-01-22 22:23:41 +0100 (Mon, 22 Jan 2007) | 2 lines

  Bug #1627316: handle error in condition/ignore pdb commands more gracefully.
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  r53526 | lars.gustaebel | 2007-01-23 12:17:33 +0100 (Tue, 23 Jan 2007) | 4 lines

  Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate
  directories.
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  r53527 | thomas.wouters | 2007-01-23 14:42:00 +0100 (Tue, 23 Jan 2007) | 13 lines


  SF patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in sitecustomize

  When running the interpreter in an environment that would cause it to set
  stdout/stderr/stdin's encoding, having a sitecustomize that would replace
  them with something other than PyFile objects would crash the interpreter.
  Fix it by simply ignoring the encoding-setting for non-files.

  This could do with a test, but I can think of no maintainable and portable
  way to test this bug, short of adding a sitecustomize.py to the buildsystem
  and have it always run with it (hmmm....)
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  r53528 | thomas.wouters | 2007-01-23 14:50:49 +0100 (Tue, 23 Jan 2007) | 4 lines


  Add news entry about last checkin (oops.)
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  r53531 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-01-23 22:11:47 +0100 (Tue, 23 Jan 2007) | 4 lines

  Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
  frame's thread state. Fixes #1579370.
  Will backport.
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  r53535 | brett.cannon | 2007-01-24 00:21:22 +0100 (Wed, 24 Jan 2007) | 5 lines

  Fix crasher for when an object's __del__ creates a new weakref to itself.
  Patch only fixes new-style classes; classic classes still buggy.

  Closes bug #1377858.  Already backported.
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  r53536 | walter.doerwald | 2007-01-24 01:42:19 +0100 (Wed, 24 Jan 2007) | 2 lines

  Port test_popen.py to unittest.
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2007-02-01 18:02:27 +00:00
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README.txt
msi.py Four months of trunk changes (including a few releases...) 2006-12-13 04:49:30 +00:00
msilib.py Open dll file in binary. 2006-03-05 13:52:20 +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
sequence.py
uisample.py fix typos, mostly in comments 2005-10-28 14:39:47 +00:00
uuids.py Merged revisions 53451-53537 via svnmerge from 2007-02-01 18:02:27 +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.