At 01:29 PM 3/25/2009 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote:
Paul Moore wrote:
2009/3/25 Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com>:
Since setuptools came on the scene, I can state with some certainty
that many packages which would otherwise have been distributed as
bdist_wininst installers, now aren't. In some cases, only source
packages are provided (on the basis that easy_install will build what
you need). In those cases, I can accept that maybe the developer would
not have built Windows installers even before setuptools arrived. But
in a significant number of cases - including setuptools itself!!!! -
binary, version-specific eggs for Windows are provided, but no
bdist_wininst installers. If the developer is willing to build an egg,
he could just as easily have built an installer - but he now has to
choose - build one or the other, or both. And not everyone chooses the
same way.
Is it possible to write an egg to bdist converter (or vice versa)?
easy_install can convert bdist_wininst installers to .egg files; I'm
not sure if the reverse is possible in practice, although it
certainly is in principle.
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