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.
