Thomas Heller wrote: > 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.
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