On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 3:13 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <[email protected]> wrote: >> I am interested in adding some metadata in the installers generated by >> bdist_wininst. I did it through a hack: base64-encoding the medata in >> a new section in the embedded cfgdata. From my understanding the >> installer.c sources, this seems safe, and the generated installer does >> work, but I am wondering whether there is a better way of doing it, >> and whether it could potentially breaks something, > > Why not use a file that gets installed in the system?
Because I don't want the file installed. I am interested in doing this for arbitrary packages (the goal is to add support for egg <-> windows installer conversion in my packaging solution) David _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
