> Looks like we need JScript (what can that do, though?) or VBScript. Not sure whether users could accept writing JScript or VBScript for bdist_msi, so (atleast for bdist_msi), I would like to either support Python pre-install scripts, or not support pre-install scripts at all.
The question is whether we could trick a VBScript into also being a Python script. As this might be an interesting puzzle to solve, I'd like to pose it to the entire distutils-sig readership. So here is the problem again: As a batch file, my attempt at having a batch file that is also a Python script was to write it as rem=""" %1 %0 exit """ <python code here> This should have been run with argv[1] being the path to the Python interpreter. As a batch file, the first line is a comment, the second line runs Python, anbd the third line terminates the script (so it doesn't consider the following lines). As a Python script, the first block is a variable assignment, followed by the regular Python script. Now (as Installer won't run batch files) we need the same as VBScript (or, failing that, as JScript). The script would be computed at the time of MSI generation. TIA, Martin _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
