Compared to the effort to build the binaries it is trivial to repackage the content of those installers into EGG, MSI, NSI or other programmatically deployable

Compared to the effort to build the binaries it is trivial to repackage the content of those installers into EGG, MSI, NSI or other programmatically deployable formats. In fact the Pythonxy and Enthought Python distributions repackage some of those installers into their formats. The exe installers created by Python distutils are the least common distribution/packaging option that works on Python 2.4 to 3.3, 32 and 64 bit. The installers are valid ZIP files and it takes a few lines of command line or Python script to extract the content to any target location. It is the sheer availability of those binaries, and the feedback (incl. patches) to the package authors about Windows build and runtime issues that is the value of the project. It does not solve the Python packaging or deployment problems.