On Jul 7, 2007, at 1:20 AM, Mark Hammond wrote: > Hi Jim, > >> Since you happen to be paying attention to distributions atm ... :) >> >> I would love to see a pywin32 egg, which by definition, didn't need >> to modify anything when it was installed. I guess there are some >> features in pywin32 that wouldn't work with such a setup, but I'm >> guessing that most features would. Even if it wasn't called >> pywin32, >> I'd really like to see an egg that contained the parts of pywin32 >> that can be used without modifying anything on installation. >> >> Please. Pretty please. :) It would make pywin32 much mroe >> usable for >> people using setuptools. > > I'm sure you know the drill - patches are always welcome :)
Unfortunately, I don't have sufficient Windows knowledge. > I've never > modified a setup script to support eggs, and at this stage You generally don't need to unless you want to be able to specify extra meta data. A standard distutils setup file should do. The main difference is that eggs are "zero installation", so someone installing an egg won't get any post-installation done automatically. ... > Also, if part of the functionality we had to drop was implementing COM > objects (and we would if we couldn't install stuff into system32 or > modify > the HKLM part of the registry), then I'd be reluctant to call this a > suitable distribution for anyone other than people wishing to package > pywin32 with their own custom application, and I'd struggle to justify > spending much time creating and supporting a distribution just for > them. I'm sorry to hear that. > IOW, I'm certainly not opposed to the concept, but struggling to > justify > squeezing it into the time I have available for this stuff... I might be willing to create such distributions, at least for our own use, and make them publicly available, much as I've done for Twisted, but I probably wouldn't do a great job. Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Python Powered! CTO (540) 361-1714 http://www.python.org Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com http://www.zope.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
