So basically what your saying is that the MSI that I compile will only work
for my specific situation as I'm not building it with a bundle?

Hmm, that kind of sucks.

Disregarding the difficulty of manually converting from source to MSI, if I
was to choose to produce a version that included all the features you
listed so it was able to be considered a full MSI release so others could
benefit as well,
would it be possible to get a bundle, even if was only for some of the
older releases?

I have a strategy I am considering employing to solve the problem where the
more data I can get, the better it will all come together.

Basically, I have a 5x raspberry pi 3 neural network unit that I am
planning on getting here within the next couple of weeks to experiment with
machine learning.
Considering the situation, I believe this may be a good task to apply a
convolution neural net to solve.

The problem is essentially converting the raw source code into the
corresponding MSI, via Wix.
If I use the old release's source and MSI repositories as models, I believe
it should be possible to train the system to do the conversion for future
versions as well.
The more data I have to feed the system, such as the bundles you mentioned,
would definitely help increase the accuracy of the algorithm more quickly,
but I'm not sure if this would be something Python.org would be willing to
share.
Even without the bundles, I think it will still be achievable.
It just may take the system longer to attain sufficient accuracy as it
would have to extrapolate more from the raw data.

Is this an idea that intrigues you even slightly?
Even if its a long shot, I think the benefits would be worth the attempt
and the vast majority of the investment of time and resources would be my
responsibilty.
After the fact, should the algorithm succeed, I would be happy to share all
my data with python.org regarding the experiment so you could begin
providing MSI releases again with minimal effort on your part.

Should you feel like there is something that would inherently and
irrefutably inhibit the process, making this a completely hopeless
endeavor, I will resign myself to producing the one-time use, stripped down
version you were describing previously.

I just hate investing a bunch of time into a project and the code I create
is basically useless after I use it once, but I do respect your opinion
therefore wanted to submit the proposal for your consideration before
diving down the rabbit hole.

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On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 10:12 PM, Steve Dower <report@bugs.python.org>
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> Steve Dower added the comment:
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> Burn bundles are part of Wix, but it's the part you don't like :)
>
> If you just want a single MSI, you won't want a bundle. But you will have
> to leave out nearly half of the features I listed because they simply are
> not possible without it.
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