I should have been clearer - I need to come up with a way of integrating that into distutils somehow. I could make a local patch, but that is error prone and makes it hard for others to reproduce my builds. Having said that though, it is possible I will do exactly that if it starts truly holding me up.
Mark Original message: --------------------- From: Simon Dahlbacka [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 15 January 2008 6:29 PM To: Mark Hammond Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; python-win32@python.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [python-win32] Check if user has windows administrator Oh - and also how to either (a) force bdist_wininst executables to request elevation or (b) have the .msi generation be smarter wrt upgrading so installation is reasonable on Vista. Does anyone here have bdist_msi experience? For a), it should work by adding a manifest like this <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0"> <assemblyIdentity version="1.0.0.0" processorArchitecture="X86" name="MyProjectName" type="win32" /> <description>MyProjectDescription</description> <trustInfo xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v2"> <security> <requestedPrivileges> <requestedExecutionLevel level="requireAdministrator" /> </requestedPrivileges> </security> </trustInfo> </assembly> "$(DevEnvDir)..\..\Common7\Tools\Bin\mt.exe" -manifest "$(ProjectDir)$(TargetName).exe.manifest" outputresource:"$(TargetDir)$(TargetFileName)";#1 _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
