Bernhard Herzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "M.-A. Lemburg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>>> What do you have in mind - a bdist_wininst lookalike for
>>> Python packages, built with inno?
>>
>> Yes. One that creates an Inno setup file and then compiles
>> everything into an installer using the Inno, but installing
>> things much like bdist_wininst (and with the option of
>> building upon the many extra features you get from the
>> InnoSetup system).
>>
>> Bernhard Herzog started one some time ago:
>> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2001-September/002597.html
>
> FWIW, the code that's linked from that posting is still unchanged in
> Thuban and worked fine last time I made a release about a year ago with
> python 2.3.
>From the code linked in the posting above:
# and invoke
if self.run_inno:
self.spawn(["iscc", iss_file])
This code compiles the generated iss file, but it requires that ISCC is
on the PATH. I guess that it would be better to use
os.startfile(iss_file, "compile")
but this requires that os.startfile, which is implemented with
ShellExecute() on Windows, grows an optional second option.
Another example use case would be
os.startfile("mydocs.pdf", "print")
If this would be accepted, I could upload/commit a patch for that.
Thomas
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