> By the way, is it possible, from the postinstall script, to know the > Python instance used?
Sure: the python interpreter running the postinstall script *is* the one being used. Look at sys.executable. > There is one thing I'm not sure to understand about the bdist_wininst > and bdist_msi commands: what is the reason why they don't simply execute > `python setup.py install` in the background? Primarily because this would users require to have Visual Studio installed, plus potentially tons of header files and other build dependencies (e.g. setuptools). Other reasons are: - with a plain "setup.py install", uninstallation is not supported, but that is a feature of both bdist_wininst and bdist_msi - you need to unpack the files first to run "setup.py install": where would you unpack them to? - it's more efficient: installation runs faster. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
