Paul Moore wrote: > On 11/14/06, Ross McKerchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I would like to repackage the win32 extensions as an msi using the the >> bdist_msi distutils extension, allowing me to deploy the package to >> multiple clients using group policy. > > The executable installer (bdist_wininst) format is basically a zip > file with an executable header added, so you can unzip it using > something like winzip. Having said that, the installer runs a > postinstall script to do a lot of the setup actions - I don't know if > bdist_msi handles postinstall scripts.
Thanks for the info. Unfortunately I didn't manage to get distutils working on the extracted binaries (I couldn't get it to skip trying to compile, a step doomed to failure if you dont have a compiler installed). However, I did manage to manually repackage the install as a (fairly primitive) msi. If anyone would like this (build 210 for python 2.5) please email me. If there's enough interest I'll post it for download. -ross _______________________________________________ Python-win32 mailing list Python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
