[following up on distutils-sig]
Michael Foord wrote:
Many Windows users would be quite happy if the standard mechanism for
installing non-source distributions on Windows was via the wininst
binaries.
...and many users may not be ;-) I know I'd be extremely unhappy if that
were the case as I routines use multiple versions of packages with
multiple versions of python on one machine...
I wonder if it is going to be possible to make this compatible with the
upcoming distutils package management 'stuff' (querying for installed
packages, uninstallation etc) since installation/uninstallation goes
through the Windows system package management feature. I guess it would
be eminently possible but require some reasonably high level Windows-fu
to do.
I wouldn't have a problem if integrating with the windows package
manager was an optional extra, but I think it's one of many types of
package management that need to be worried about, so might be easier to
get the others working and let anyone who wants anything beyond a
pure-python packaging system that works across platforms, regardless of
whether binary extensions are needed, do the work themselves...
Chris
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