ISTM the click-on-an-MSI-and-everything-works may be OK for a "system-wide"
installation for a given version of Python, but I don't see how that can work
with venvs (it's the same problem as for bdist_wininst installers). How would
one pass the venv (to install into) to a point-and-click installer, without
using a command line? Drag-and-drop onto a venv folder is a possibility, but
that's not exactly the conventional usage idiom for MSIs.
Regards,
Vinay Sajip
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From: M.-A. Lemburg <m...@egenix.com>
To: Python Distutils SIG <distutils-sig@python.org>
Sent: Monday, 7 July 2014, 14:02
Subject: [Distutils] pip, virtualenv, setuptools on Windows
I wonder what our story is for the pip, virtualenv, setuptools packaging
setup on Windows.
At the moment, the only way to get this setup seems to be following
guides such as these:
http://www.tylerbutler.com/2012/05/how-to-install-python-pip-and-virtualenv-on-windows-with-powershell/
But that's not really how Windows users expect things to work. They
want to click on an installer, preferably a MSI one, since that
integrates well with managed corporate Windows environments, and then
expect everything to just work. Much in the same way they install Python
itself.
Is there anything planned in this area ?
Hint: If someone were to send in a grant request to build such an
installer for Windows, I'm sure the PSF board would love to fund work
such work.
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