> It is quite easy to use the bdist_wininst command to create a > Windows installer executable. A browser click on a link to > the .EXE file allows for software installation, but > easy_install is not run and the packages listed in > setup.install_requires are not installed. Is there a way to > force the windows installer to run easy_install? > > If I were to create an egg, is there a content-type heading > that would cause easy_install to process the egg? > (much like application/vnd.ms-excel) I could not find > an easy_install entry in the registry in my test WinXP > computer after installing setuptools. > > I thought one of these approaches would be fairly easy, but > googling and experimenting have gotten me nowhere.
bdist_wininst is designed to install a python package, not to install a python "application" which has external dependencies. You may like to consider py2exe, which is designed to create a stand-alone executable from your python app - but even then, eggs etc are not processed - you are expected to have all relevant packages installed on your dev box, and they are packaged inside the app. Mark
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