Hello Anthony,
May i join this post? Did the samples/simple setup.py bdsit_msi Got all the stuff Craig reported. WindowsXp Python 3.1.2 Qt 4.6.2 PyQt 4.7.3 sip 4.10.2 QScintilla 2.4.3 eric 5.0.0 cx_freeze-4.2-py3.1 Frans. Op 7/23/2010 4:58 PM, Anthony Tuininga schreef: > On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 1:44 AM, Craig McQueen > <mcquee...@edsrd1.yzk.co.jp> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm using cx_Freeze 4.2, for Python 2.7, on Windows 2000. I'm using a >> setup.py to drive cx_Freeze. I did: >> >> setup.py build bdist_msi >> >> I noticed that unlike for Python 2.6, the generated MSI file doesn't have >> the -win32 suffix. > > Really? I didn't see that. Try running that command in the > samples/simple directory and see if you get the same result. I get > this file generated: > > hello-0.1-win32.msi > >> I ran the MSI it created, to install my program. It installed into >> c:\Program Files\myprogname. But, it also created a bunch of >> sub-directories: >> Python2.0 >> Python2.1 >> Python2.2 >> ... >> Python2.8 >> Python2.9 >> Python3.0 >> Python3.1 >> Python3.2 >> ... >> Python3.8 >> Python3.9 >> >> Each subdirectory has a complete copy of the program--and appear to be >> redundant, making the installation about 20 times bigger than it needs to >> be! Although the MSI file itself is only a little bigger than that created >> by cx_Freeze under Python 2.6. >> >> I assume this has something to do with this: >> http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Lib/distutils/command/bdist_msi.py?view=log#rev72306 >> >> I'm guessing this is an unexpected side-effect of that change. > > Yes, indeed. Thanks for pointing it out. I have just checked in a > change to eliminate this problem. I'll wait a bit before releasing a > new version just in case there are a few other things that turn up. > :-) But in the meantime you can simply copy the updated windist.py > from Subversion into your cx_Freeze installation and the problem will > go away. > > Anthony > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint > What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? > Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first > _______________________________________________ > cx-freeze-users mailing list > cx-freeze-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cx-freeze-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ cx-freeze-users mailing list cx-freeze-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cx-freeze-users
