[Python-Dev] Packaging and binary distributions for Python 3.3

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> - On formats, I strongly believe that having multiple formats is a
> problem. But I need to be clear here - an installer (MSI, wininst) is
> a bundle containing executable code (which drives the interface), plus
> a chunk of data that is the objects to be installed. (I am
> oversimplifying here, but bear with me).

Beyond oversimplifying, I think this is actually wrong: MSI deliberately
is *not* an executable format, but just a "dumb" database, to be 
interpreted by the installation routines that are already on the system.
In that sense, it is very similar to pysetup and bdist_simple.

Regards,
Martin