2009/10/9 Michael Foord <[email protected]>: > Many Windows users would be quite happy if the standard mechanism for > installing non-source distributions on Windows was via the wininst binaries.
Actually, my understanding is that easy_install is perfectly able to use (download, unpack and install) bdist_wininst packages. So *as a binary distribution format* bdist_wininst installers can do all that eggs can, plus extra (install themselves unassisted!) So why is there a need for an egg binary format on Windows? Paul. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
