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

[Peter J. Holzer]

On 2020-05-23 13:22:26 -0600, Mats Wichmann wrote:
> 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:
[...]
> 
> 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.

This seems a rather odd policy to me. Distributing a security fix in
source-only form will prevent many people from applying it (especially
on Windows).

        hp

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