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7575The release manager for the Python Install Manager on Windows is whoever is the
7676build manager for Windows for CPython.
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78+ ## Versioning
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80+ PyManager uses the two digit year as the first part of the version,
81+ with the second part incrementing for each release.
82+ This is to avoid any sense of features being tied to the version number,
83+ and to avoid any direct association with Python releases.
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85+ The two digit year is used because MSI does not support major version fields
86+ over 256. If/when we completely drop the MSI, we could switch to four digit
87+ years, but as long as it exists we have to handle its compatibility constraints.
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7890# Copyright and License Information
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8092Copyright © 2025 Python Software Foundation. All rights reserved.
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