New Windows installer

[Steve]

Can you make this a .msi file instead of an .exe?  The msi file supports a flag to allow silent installs.  The old NSIS installer supported this.

[Pierre Raybaut]

Spyder's installer is now built with the standard Python distutils
library which implements two kind of installers for Windows: wininst
(.exe) and msi (.msi).
The wininst format was chosen because:
1. beside its 'exe' header, it's just a zip file (simpler to extract,
to explore and so to check if bundled files are all there for example)
2. it supports arbitrary version numbers, like "2.8beta1" (msi only
supports X.Y.Z version numbers... which is a limitation!)

-Pierre

2013/1/10 Steve <steve.f....@gmail.com>:

> Can you make this a .msi file instead of an .exe? The msi file supports a
> flag to allow silent installs. The old NSIS installer supported this.
>

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[Steve]

Yeah, I guess it just depends on what's "important".  I do think it's a bad idea to remove features users were previously relying on.

[Steve]

I realized spyder now works with pip, so I'll be using that instead of the stand alone installer.  Are there any potential downsides?