Provide Window's Installer

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python

Research direction

No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by reviewing the current Windows .exe packaging and release process, then investigate how an MSI installer would fit that process. Done means the project has a defined MSI packaging path and released MSI binaries, with the startup extraction concern evaluated.

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Description

enhancement

It would be nice to have a Window's Installer and release msi binaries rather than .exe's. For one thing, I noticed on Window's the extraction that happens on startup is rather slow.

Dominant language
Python
Stars
132
Forks
27
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