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authorMiss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>2022-08-02 00:06:22 (GMT)
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gh-92219: Clarify that some options to the installer may break the install (GH-95548)
(cherry picked from commit d2c1a9c76c001b18c14e50779b0ee41ea4ccf0b3) Co-authored-by: Steve Dower <steve.dower@python.org>
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@@ -181,18 +181,22 @@ of available options is shown below.
| Include_debug | Install debug binaries | 0 |
+---------------------------+--------------------------------------+--------------------------+
| Include_dev | Install developer headers and | 1 |
-| | libraries | |
+| | libraries. Omitting this may lead to | |
+| | an unusable installation. | |
+---------------------------+--------------------------------------+--------------------------+
| Include_exe | Install :file:`python.exe` and | 1 |
-| | related files | |
+| | related files. Omitting this may | |
+| | lead to an unusable installation. | |
+---------------------------+--------------------------------------+--------------------------+
| Include_launcher | Install :ref:`launcher`. | 1 |
+---------------------------+--------------------------------------+--------------------------+
-| InstallLauncherAllUsers | Installs :ref:`launcher` for all | 1 |
-| | users. | |
+| InstallLauncherAllUsers | Installs the launcher for all | 1 |
+| | users. Also requires | |
+| | ``Include_launcher`` to be set to 1 | |
+---------------------------+--------------------------------------+--------------------------+
| Include_lib | Install standard library and | 1 |
-| | extension modules | |
+| | extension modules. Omitting this may | |
+| | lead to an unusable installation. | |
+---------------------------+--------------------------------------+--------------------------+
| Include_pip | Install bundled pip and setuptools | 1 |
+---------------------------+--------------------------------------+--------------------------+