On 15 July 2013 23:09, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal <chris.bar...@noaa.gov>wrote:
> > For simple cases yes, but we have > > bdist_wininst and bdist_msi for those, and they are clearly not enough. > > but they are really widely used -- maybe when binary wheels become > ubiqitous, I'll stop using them, but I'm no command line phobic, and I > usually go first to look for an installer on Windows. The killer issue with bdist_wininst and bdist_msi is that they don't work with virtualenvs. I was a fan of them till I started using virtualenv, at which point they become totally useless :-( I'm not against someone writing a GUI. But it won't be me :-) Paul
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