2009/6/4 Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com>: > On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Also, you need to remember that bdist_wininst is not a "third-party" >> tool. It's part of distutils (although it's probably written in such a >> way that it could easily be extracted as a 3rd party addin - I >> honestly don't know). > > I think that would be great to externalize such command to decouple > its release cycles > from Python (As mentioned during the Langage summit) > > The only requirement would be to find someone that would lead its development, > > If I find a windows developer that wants to handle this <hint> <hint> > , we could probably > create a separate project
Not a chance :-) No way do I have sufficient time, I'm afraid. And personally, I prefer it built in, so I'm ideologically opposed to the idea as well :-) But I'm happy to offer advice and information to anyone who needs to know more about the way the Windows system works. >> I'd seriously recommend looking at bdist_wininst as an example - it's >> distributed with Python, so the source is easy to find, but it >> installs extra system-level metadata above and beyond what setup.py >> install does, so you can see what sorts of issues you have to deal >> with. (Some of the Unix-level packagers like bdist_rpm may be equally >> illuminating, but I've no experience with those). > > I will, thanks for the tip. I guess bdist_msi should be also our > target for this, Yes, but bdist_wininst is likely to be a *lot* easier to follow, because (as far as I understand it) bdist_msi builds a blob of structured binary data (it's essentially a custom form of database packed in one file) which is read and parsed by the Windows installer service. So a lot of the mechanisms are hidden, compared to bdist_wininst which is a "roll your own" approach to setting up the required metadata. Paul. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
