On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 7:44 PM, David Cournapeau <courn...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 5:49 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 2009/10/20 Chris Withers <ch...@simplistix.co.uk>: >> There are many (I believe) Windows users for whom bdist_wininst is >> just what they want. For those people, where's the incentive to switch >> in what you propose? You're not providing the features they currently >> have, and frankly "do the work yourself" is no answer (not everyone >> can, often for entirely legitimate reasons). > > I am not so familiar with msi or wininst internals, but isn't it > possible to install w.r.t. a given prefix ?
This is definitely supported by the msi. In fact, you can do this at the command line (although I don't know if this is considered officially supported or not): $ argparse-1.0.2.win32-py2.6.msi /quiet TARGETDIR=C:\TempPython $ dir C:\TempPython\Lib\site-packages Volume in drive C has no label. Volume Serial Number is B6E6-4B4D Directory of C:\TempPython\Lib\site-packages 10/20/2009 10:04 PM <DIR> . 10/20/2009 10:04 PM <DIR> .. 10/20/2009 10:03 PM 1,584 argparse-1.0.2-py3.1.egg-info 10/09/2009 11:03 AM 86,620 argparse.py Steve -- Where did you get that preposterous hypothesis? Did Steve tell you that? --- The Hiphopopotamus _______________________________________________ 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