Comment 7 for bug 187106

On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 10:05:48AM -0000, Alexander Belchenko wrote:
> If you're saying that running from python sources does not hurt performance
> on Vista with Sophos antivirus then we have some variants what to do next:
>
> 1) py2exe utility that converts bzr python program to standalone bzr.exe
> program has the option to avoid packing python modules/packages to library.zip
> and put them into some directory as regular files. I'd like to have them
> into library.zip because of integrity and security reasons (and on XP
> running from bzr.exe is faster than with python interpreter, but it's not
> the case for you :-[) but have no strong opinion against unpacking library.zip
>
> 2) don't do anything and put warning into the FAQ.

My first reaction to this is that (1) is probably the best solution,
because I think it is quite likely that Sophos is *not* the only
antivirus software that triggers this condition. I would hate to have a
lot of of Vista users test out bzr for the first time and immediately
decide that it is broken.

> If you're interesting in testing ideas #1 on Vista with Sophos
> I'll try to provide new standalone installer for you.

If you can provide a test build, I would be happy to try it on that
Vista box.

Paul