On 14 July 2013 23:09, Noah Kantrowitz <n...@coderanger.net> wrote: > > Another option we may want to consider is an actual msi installer for > pip (I'm not sure that would actually help, but it's worth looking into), > as well as investigating what other self-updating Windows apps (like > Firefox) do to handle this problem. > > They do the "exec a helper executable that replaces the original" > approach, which works fine for non-console apps since there isn't the > problem of the shell getting confused :-/
Generally, I don't think that going down the route of MSIs is a good move. They aren't a good fit for this problem. Apart from anything else, they won't support installing into a virtualenv. Paul
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