cpython/Tools/msi
Christian Heimes faf2f63faf Merged revisions 59703-59773 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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  r59704 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-04 04:15:05 +0100 (Fri, 04 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Moved include "Python.h" in front of other imports to silence a warning.
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  r59706 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-04 04:22:53 +0100 (Fri, 04 Jan 2008) | 10 lines

  Minor fix-ups to named tuples:

  * Make the _replace() method respect subclassing.

  * Using property() to make _fields read-only wasn't a good idea.
    It caused len(Point._fields) to fail.

  * Add note to _cast() about length checking and alternative with the star-operator.
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  r59707 | jeffrey.yasskin | 2008-01-04 09:01:23 +0100 (Fri, 04 Jan 2008) | 3 lines

  Make math.{floor,ceil}({int,long}) return float again for backwards
  compatibility after r59671 made them return integral types.
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  r59709 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-04 14:21:07 +0100 (Fri, 04 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
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  r59712 | lars.gustaebel | 2008-01-04 15:00:33 +0100 (Fri, 04 Jan 2008) | 5 lines

  Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets
  directory permissions and times.

  (will backport to 2.5)
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  r59714 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-04 15:47:17 +0100 (Fri, 04 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Update links to bug/patch tracker
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  r59716 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-04 16:23:30 +0100 (Fri, 04 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Added interface to Windows' WSAIoctl and a simple example for a network sniffer.
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  r59717 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-04 16:29:00 +0100 (Fri, 04 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  And here is the rest of Hirokazu Yamamoto's patch for VS6.0 support. Thanks Hiro!
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  r59719 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-04 16:34:06 +0100 (Fri, 04 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Reverted last transaction. It's the wrong branch.
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  r59721 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-04 16:48:06 +0100 (Fri, 04 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  socket.ioctl is only available on Windows
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  r59722 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-04 19:24:41 +0100 (Fri, 04 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Fix markup
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  r59723 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-04 19:25:05 +0100 (Fri, 04 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Fix markup
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  r59725 | guido.van.rossum | 2008-01-05 01:59:59 +0100 (Sat, 05 Jan 2008) | 3 lines

  Patch #1725 by Mark Dickinson, fixes incorrect conversion of -1e1000
  and adds errors for -0x.
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  r59726 | guido.van.rossum | 2008-01-05 02:21:57 +0100 (Sat, 05 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Patch #1698 by Senthil: allow '@' in username when parsed by urlparse.py.
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  r59727 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-05 02:35:43 +0100 (Sat, 05 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Improve namedtuple's _cast() method with a docstring, new name, and error-checking.
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  r59728 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-05 03:17:24 +0100 (Sat, 05 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Add error-checking to namedtuple's _replace() method.
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  r59730 | fred.drake | 2008-01-05 05:38:38 +0100 (Sat, 05 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  clean up a comment
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  r59731 | jeffrey.yasskin | 2008-01-05 09:47:13 +0100 (Sat, 05 Jan 2008) | 11 lines

  Continue rolling back pep-3141 changes that changed behavior from 2.5. This
  round included:
   * Revert round to its 2.6 behavior (half away from 0).
   * Because round, floor, and ceil always return float again, it's no
     longer necessary to have them delegate to __xxx___, so I've ripped
     that out of their implementations and the Real ABC. This also helps
     in implementing types that work in both 2.6 and 3.0: you return int
     from the __xxx__ methods, and let it get enabled by the version
     upgrade.
   * Make pow(-1, .5) raise a ValueError again.
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  r59736 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-05 16:13:49 +0100 (Sat, 05 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Fix comment typo
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  r59738 | thomas.heller | 2008-01-05 18:15:44 +0100 (Sat, 05 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Add myself.
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  r59739 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-05 18:49:17 +0100 (Sat, 05 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix C++-style comment.
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  r59742 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-05 20:28:16 +0100 (Sat, 05 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Remove with_statement future imports from 2.6 docs.
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  r59743 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-05 20:29:45 +0100 (Sat, 05 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Simplify index entries; fix #1712.
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  r59744 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-05 20:44:22 +0100 (Sat, 05 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Doc patch #1730 from Robin Stocker; minor corrections mostly to os.rst.
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  r59749 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-05 21:29:13 +0100 (Sat, 05 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Revert socket.rst to unix-eol.
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  r59750 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-05 21:33:46 +0100 (Sat, 05 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Set native svn:eol-style property for text files.
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  r59752 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-05 21:46:29 +0100 (Sat, 05 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  #1719: capitalization error in "UuidCreate".
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  r59753 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-05 22:02:25 +0100 (Sat, 05 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Repair markup.
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  r59754 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-05 22:10:50 +0100 (Sat, 05 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Use markup.
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  r59757 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-05 22:35:52 +0100 (Sat, 05 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Final adjustments for #1601
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  r59758 | guido.van.rossum | 2008-01-05 23:19:06 +0100 (Sat, 05 Jan 2008) | 3 lines

  Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
  Fix by John Nagle.
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  r59759 | guido.van.rossum | 2008-01-05 23:20:01 +0100 (Sat, 05 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Add John Nagle (of issue #1637).
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  r59765 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-06 10:02:24 +0100 (Sun, 06 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Small code simplification.  Forgot that classmethods can be called from intances.
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  r59766 | martin.v.loewis | 2008-01-06 11:09:48 +0100 (Sun, 06 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Use vcbuild for VS 2009.
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  r59767 | martin.v.loewis | 2008-01-06 12:03:43 +0100 (Sun, 06 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Package using VS 2008.
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  r59768 | martin.v.loewis | 2008-01-06 12:13:16 +0100 (Sun, 06 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Don't try to package msvcr90 for the moment.
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  r59769 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-06 15:17:36 +0100 (Sun, 06 Jan 2008) | 4 lines

  #1696393: don't check for '.' and '..' in ntpath.walk since
  they aren't returned from os.listdir anymore.
  Reported by Michael Haggerty.
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  r59770 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-06 15:27:15 +0100 (Sun, 06 Jan 2008) | 3 lines

  #1742: don't raise exception on os.path.relpath("a", "a"), but return os.curdir.
  Reported by Jesse Towner.
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  r59771 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-06 15:33:52 +0100 (Sun, 06 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  #1591: Clarify docstring of Popen3.
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  r59772 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-06 16:30:34 +0100 (Sun, 06 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  #1680: fix context manager example function name.
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  r59773 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-06 16:34:57 +0100 (Sun, 06 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  #1755097: document default values for [].sort() and sorted().
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2008-01-06 16:59:19 +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 59703-59773 via svnmerge from 2008-01-06 16:59:19 +00:00
msilib.py Merged revisions 59321-59322 via svnmerge from 2007-12-04 15:54:13 +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.