Hi All, We currently use the standard Python and Pywin32 installers but to make our win32 application,) which uses Python to execute dynamically generated expressions including instantiating COM servers and hence the need to pywin32), easier to install and support multiple versions side by side etc we want to switch to using an embedded version installed in a sub-folder of our application.
This will allow simple xcopy deployment plus allow us to package our application using project centennial as a Windows store App. I have a prototype that seems to work by just adding the whole of the "site-packages" folder to a lib folder under the embedded Python folder and adding the 'python\lib' 'python\lib\site-packages' 'python\lib\site-packages\pythonwin' 'python\lib\site-packages\win32' 'python\lib\site-packages\win32\lib' Folders to the Python path. 1. I now want to trim the pywin32 files down to the minimum so presumably I can just delete the pip*, pkg*, setuptools* folders and also the demo, test sub-folders, help files etc - is that correct? 2. As we don't need users to use pythonwin.exe presumably we could drop that folder as well? 3. I notice that two dlls get installed to C:\WINDOWS\SysWOW64 so I am planning to also include those within our application folders (I see they're also in site-packages/pywin32-system32 already) and add/modify appropriate manifest files to ensure they are found and loaded by Windows SXS. Does anyone see a problem with that? Thanks for any help, Norm. _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
