Is there some reason that recent Windows 3.6 releases don't included executable nor msi installers?

Mats Wichmann mats at python.org
Sat May 23 15:22:26 EDT 2020


On 5/23/20 12:23 AM, Adam Preble wrote:
> I wanted to update from 3.6.8 on Windows without necessarily moving on to 3.7+ (yet), so I thought I'd try 3.6.9 or 3.6.10. 
> 
> All I see for both are source archives:
> 
> https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-369/
> https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3610/
> 
> So, uh, I theoretically did build a 3.6.10 .exe installer, but I don't really trust I did everything right. Is there an officially sourced installation?
> 

During the early part of a release cycle, installers are built.  Once
the cycle moves into security fix-only mode, installers are not built.
That's all you are seeing.



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