On Jul 15, 2013, at 6:22 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig There is something like 200 total bdist_msi on PyPI and 5k bdist_wininst. ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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