On Jul 15, 2013, at 6:24 PM, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote:
> > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig To put numbers into perspective, there are ~180k total files uploaded to PyPI. ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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