On Thursday, October 13, 2011 04:02:27 PM Jeremy Kloth wrote: > That said, I have been working on a drop-in replacement for the current > bdist_wininst executable stub with the following features: > - install to 32- or 64-bit Python installations from a single installer; > currently one installer for each architechure is required > - install to any Python from version 2.4 to the latest; > currently one installer is needed for each major version > - updated look and feel (Wizard97) with the new (as of Python 2.5!) logo; > for some screen shots see: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/67460826@N04/sets/72157627653603530/ > - unicode metadata support (name, summary, description) > - runs on Win95 through Win7 (that is, all support platforms for the > supported Python versions for packaging) > - per-user installs (as in, setup.py install --user); > currently only system-wide or per-user based on permissions and how > Python itself was installed
I missed a few additional features: - UAC (Vista, Win7) is handled at the install phase depending on the selected Python target (system or user installed Python or user site-packages); currently just at the running of the installer - pre-/post- install and remove script support with the scripts no longer needing to be installed with the distribution - MSVCRT agnostic; built completely with the Windows API meaning only one stub EXE required; currently there is one stub per MSVCRT version -- Jeremy Kloth _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com