Ross McKerchar wrote: > Paul Moore wrote: > > On 11/14/06, Ross McKerchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I would like to repackage the win32 extensions as an msi using the the > >> bdist_msi distutils extension, allowing me to deploy the package to > >> multiple clients using group policy. > > > > The executable installer (bdist_wininst) format is basically a zip > > file with an executable header added, so you can unzip it using > > something like winzip. Having said that, the installer runs a > > postinstall script to do a lot of the setup actions - I don't know if > > bdist_msi handles postinstall scripts. > > Thanks for the info. > > Unfortunately I didn't manage to get distutils working on the extracted > binaries (I couldn't get it to skip trying to compile, a step doomed to > failure if you dont have a compiler installed). > > However, I did manage to manually repackage the install as a (fairly > primitive) msi. If anyone would like this (build 210 for python 2.5) > please email me. If there's enough interest I'll post it for download. I guess me asking would count as enough interest then? I'd be interested in the setup script used for it as well...
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