Include zlib.dll in McMillan Installer

Gordon McMillan gmcm at hypernet.com
Fri Apr 12 08:54:34 EDT 2002


[posted and mailed]

Harald Schneider wrote:

> Hello Gordon,
> 
> removing zlib.dll from excludes[] in bindepend.py adds zlib.dll to the
> archive.
> Can I do this by a command in the .spec file?

No, you can't override that from the .spec file.

However, you should be fine removing it. The exclude dates from
the Python 1.5 timeframe - in certain situations you could end
up with 2 copies of zlib.dll (run*.exe also used it, so it was
always included anyway).

-- Gordon
http://www.mcmillan-inc.com/




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