On Friday, 13 July 2007, Michael Urman wrote: > Furthermore only one architecture may be set in the template summary, > so an installer may be only one of i386, x64, and Intel64 (although > the latter are assumed to also be able to run i386 binaries).
I suspect I'm still missing something here. The title of the page you referenced before is "Using 64-Bit Windows Installer Packages" - I suspect that is different than a 32-Bit installer package installing a 64bit program! > Agreed. I was just making clear that I'm not familiar with what the > MSI includes, and whether any of the components in a 64-bit install > should be 32-bit or not. With the msilib code as is, it appears to be > all or nothing, or rely on tweaking a global between calls to > start_component. Yes - that is a bit of a shame, as having 32bit components would allow more flexibility (eg, allow a 64bit install of Python to work with an IIS configured for 32bit extensions), but that's something we can deal with later if necessary. > If you just want to get to the keys it currently > sets, there should be an override parameter that causes the registry > API to read the 32-bit keys even in a 64-bit process, but I'm not > familiar with using _winreg. using _winreg is (almost) like using the API directly. RegDisable[/Enable]ReflectionKey appears to let the 32bit process see the real keys - I'm not aware of how 64bit apps would enable that reflection, but it probably doesn't really matter for our purposes. In case anyone is interested, I just made a patch to _winreg.c adding these 2 functions (http://python.org/sf/1753245) in case anyone would like to review it. > If there's interest and I can get pointers to where the MSI files are > built, I can look into patching it. I don't have a convenient 64-bit > Windows machine around to test any changes, though. I think Tools\msi is what you are looking for, but hopefully Martin will chime in. I'm more than happy to help test. Cheers, Mark _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
