> On the one hand a XML based MSI generator could be easier to maintain.
I've looked at it, and I seriously doubt that. In WiX, you need to specify a fixed file list (perhaps with wildcards; I'm unsure). This will be tricky for Python, where the list of files to be installed changes all the time. You *need* to have a turing-complete packing language (such as Python). > On the other hand it would introduce another dependency to a 3rd party > tool and things may get complicated if we leave the road. Automation > tools tend to make common things really easy but special and uncommon > stuff really hard. Exactly so. When I started with MSI generation, and tried what comes with Visual Studio, and found it unusable - it did not support Itanium, and could not be changed to support it. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
