Pre-compiled .exe-files for other target-plaforms

Pre-compiled .exe-files for other target-plaforms

[Hartmut Goebel]

Hi,

I discovered that Python setuptools includes pre-compiled .exe files.
First I thought, these can be savely removed from the source. But when I
researched on this, I found [1] saying: " These installers can even be
created on Unix platforms or Mac OS X."

This means, these .exe files have to be included in our distribution,
too. (One may still need to ask the Python developers, resp. the
setuptools developers whether this is true and how this is supposed to
work.)

Normally we remove all pre-compliled stuff, don't we? So how should we
handle this case? We would need to cross-build these .exe files., which
are available for x86, amd64 and arm.

[1]
https://docs.python.org/2/distutils/builtdist.html#creating-windows-installers

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Regards
Hartmut Goebel

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Re: Pre-compiled .exe-files for other target-plaforms

[Leo Famulari]

On Sun, Oct 02, 2016 at 10:56:57AM +0200, Hartmut Goebel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I discovered that Python setuptools includes pre-compiled .exe files.
> First I thought, these can be savely removed from the source. But when I
> researched on this, I found [1] saying: " These installers can even be
> created on Unix platforms or Mac OS X."
> 
> This means, these .exe files have to be included in our distribution,
> too. (One may still need to ask the Python developers, resp. the
> setuptools developers whether this is true and how this is supposed to
> work.)
> 
> Normally we remove all pre-compliled stuff, don't we? So how should we
> handle this case? We would need to cross-build these .exe files., which
> are available for x86, amd64 and arm.

It doesn't look like these binary files get installed in our setuptools
package; they are present in the source code. Do they get compiled into
the setuptools that we build? If not it seems safe to remove them in an
origin snippet.