> By installer, I mean things produced by bdist_*. A significant portion > of windows users don't like eggs, and prefer .exe-based (or > .msi-based) installers. Currently, it is not possible to (reliably) > convert from one to the other (e.g. eggs->wininst), but there is no > reason why this is so.
There is most certainly a reason. The binary distribution may be lacking pieces of source code that would be needed to build another (different) binary distribution. For example, if you have a Linux RPM or .deb, it is, in general, not possible to create a Windows installer out of this, as you may need to recompile extension modules. Including the full source code in the binary distribution just to support this rare use case is unreasonable: people who want a different package format can build from the source package. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
