On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > And if people want to promote the -m option then the executable scripts just > become a secondary convenience. Plus you can't exactly require setuptools to > create those scripts at install-time with Python if that's when they are > going to be installed.
You don't need setuptools in order to include .exe wrappers, though: there's nothing setuptools-specific about the .exe files, they just run a matching, adjacent 'foo-script.py', which can contain whatever you want. Just take the appropriate wrapper .exe, and rename it to whatever 'foo' you want. IOW, if you want to ship a pip.exe on windows that just does "from pip import __main__; __main__()" (or whatever), you can do precisely that, no setuptools needed. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
