Re: Pre-compiled .exe-files for other target-plaforms

[Leo Famulari]

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.