On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ideally bdist_wininst and bdist_msi would also integrate with pysetup > and with virtual environments, but I imagine that could be pretty hard > to make work cleanly, as Windows doesn't really support multiple > installations of a software package...
That's OK, the package managers get bypassed by pysetup on POSIX systems as well - that's kind of the point of language level virtual environments (they're an intermediate step between system installs and chroot installs, which in turn are an interim step on the road to full virtualised machines). There are hard to build packages on POSIX (e.g. PIL) that would also benefit from a good, cross-platform approach to binary installation. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ 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
