tools and demo missing from windows

[jimjjewett]

BPO	1541420
Nosy	@loewis

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title = 'tools and demo missing from windows'
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[jimjjewett]

The windows distribution (I'm currently looking at
2.5b3) does not contain a Demo directory, and the
Tools directory contains only five subdirectories
(i18n, pynche, Scripts, versioncheck, webchecker)

SVN Head lists 20 directories under Demo and 17 under
Tools.

At a first pass, all except tools/audiopy (Solaris
specific) are relevant on Windows, and some tools
(such as freeze, msi) even have windows-specific code.

I've marked it 2.5 because consistency with other
platforms seems like a bugfix, even if it does
introduce new features to windows. (And note that it
only adds new files that are not on the standard path,
which should limit the risks.)

[loewis]

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This must wait until 2.5.1; more likely 2.6.

The Windows distribution was structured that way always, so
it's not a regression.

"Consistency with other platforms" is not a valid argument:
there are no binary distributions for other platforms except
for OSX (whether that includes Tools or Demo, I don't know).
The source distribution for Windows is the very same as the
source distribution for other platforms, and it does include
Tools and Demo, so it's (trivially) consistent.

I don't think the Demo directory should be included. The
equivalent of a binary distribution on Unix (make install)
doesn't install the Demos, either.

As for the Tools directory: this traditionally includes
directories on a per-request basis. If there is an actual
need for another tool, it should be added.

[loewis]

I'm closing it as "won't fix". If you have specific tools that you would
like to see included, please submit that as a separate report, along
with a rationale as to why you want to see them included.