At 09:48 PM 9/11/2010 +0200, Manlio Perillo wrote:
Is it possible to put required DLLs inside an egg?

Yes, but they have to be adjacent to any Python extensions (.pyd's) that use them.

> 1. A primary reason people have for using bdist_wininst installers is
> uninstall support, and this approach will leave dependencies behind.
>

As far as I know, all dependencies are correctly handled.
Shortcuts are correctly removed by the uninstall.

But the dependencies installed by easy_install will not get corresponding uninstall entries in the Windows control panel, and so will not be uninstalled when the user uninstalls the main application or library.


By the way, I tried to install pywin32, but I got:

AFAIK, pywin32 is not easy_install-able due to some post-install incompatibilities.

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