[issue5095] msi missing from bdist --help-formats

2009-04-05 Thread Tarek Ziadé 

Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com added the comment:

added in r71291 and r71293

Thx Steven

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[issue5095] msi missing from bdist --help-formats

2009-03-29 Thread Steven Bethard 

Steven Bethard steven.beth...@gmail.com added the comment:

The following 2 line patch adds msi to the list of formats (patch
against py3k trunk). I'm pretty sure this is all that it takes, but I'd
appreciate if someone with more distutils experience could glance at it.

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Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file13466/python-3.x-help-formats-msi

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[issue5095] msi missing from bdist --help-formats

2009-03-25 Thread John Machin 

John Machin sjmac...@users.sourceforge.net added the comment:

The 2.6.1 documentation consists of a *single* line:
distutils.command.bdist_msi — Build a Microsoft Installer binary
package. AFAICT this is the *only* mention of msi in the docs
(outside the msilib module). I heard about it only by word-of-mouth.
Docs should explain why a packager might want to use it instead of
wininst, and why the output msi is specific to the creating version of
python.

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[issue5095] msi missing from bdist --help-formats

2009-03-25 Thread Steven Bethard 

Steven Bethard steven.beth...@gmail.com added the comment:

You're right that the msi feature could use some more documentation. I
created a documentation feature request: issue5563.

As to why the .msi is specific to the creating version of Python, it's
because no one has written the code necessary to be version agnostic -
see issue5311.

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[issue5095] msi missing from bdist --help-formats

2009-01-28 Thread Steven Bethard 

New submission from Steven Bethard steven.beth...@gmail.com:

The bdist_msi command is documented in the distutils reference:

http://docs.python.org/distutils/apiref.html#module-distutils.command.bdist_msi

But it does not show up with bdist --help-formats

$ python setup.py bdist --help-formats
List of available distribution formats:
  --formats=rpm  RPM distribution
  --formats=gztargzip'ed tar file
  --formats=bztarbzip2'ed tar file
  --formats=ztar compressed tar file
  --formats=tar  tar file
  --formats=wininst  Windows executable installer
  --formats=zip  ZIP file

This probably exists in 3.0 too, but I haven't checked.

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title: msi missing from bdist --help-formats
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