[Distutils] msi installer for 64-bit Windows?

2010-12-07 Thread John Machin
Hello, I'm trying to figure out how to produce a Windows installer for pure-Python packages such that it will just run on a 64-bit Windows platform. I'm running a 32-bit Windows (Windows 7 Pro), and the msi produced by python setup.py bdist_msi works just fine on Win 7 Pro. I don't have a

Re: [Distutils] c extensions: how to rebuild and test quickly

2007-02-14 Thread John Machin
On 15/02/2007 10:30 AM, Paul Pogonyshev wrote: Hi, Distutils create dynamic library for a C extension in `build/...' directory. This makes it impossible to run program without installing it, Could you not put the build directory on your PYTHONPATH? Possible, if inconvenient. which I find

[Distutils] ez_setup.py -U setuptools does TWO downloads, TWO installs

2007-02-10 Thread John Machin
Is this usual? The ez_setup.py is fresh off the setuptools website. Environment: Python 2.5; Windows XP Pro SP2 Console log follows. Cheers, John == C:\sw\setuptools\python25\python ez_setup.py -U setuptools Downloading

Re: [Distutils] ez_setup.py -U setuptools does TWO downloads, TWO installs

2007-02-10 Thread John Machin
On 11/02/2007 3:41 PM, Phillip J. Eby wrote: At 12:59 PM 2/11/2007 +1100, John Machin wrote: Is this usual? Yes. ez_setup.py is a front-end to easy_install, that happens to also download and install the latest version of setuptools. If you want to just install the latest version

Re: [Distutils] ez_setup.py -U setuptools does TWO downloads, TWO installs

2007-02-10 Thread John Machin
On 11/02/2007 4:46 PM, Phillip J. Eby wrote: At 04:02 PM 2/11/2007 +1100, John Machin wrote: On 11/02/2007 3:41 PM, Phillip J. Eby wrote: At 12:59 PM 2/11/2007 +1100, John Machin wrote: Is this usual? Yes. ez_setup.py is a front-end to easy_install, that happens to also download

Re: [Distutils] Compiler Incompatibility

2006-12-07 Thread John Machin
On 7/12/2006 5:59 AM, Robert McFadzean wrote: I have been trying to build MySQLdb for python and A. Dustman has come to the conclusion that the minGW32 compiler that I am using will not work with a Windows ( os is Windows XP) versions of Python and MySQL. Can anyone here confirm that he is

Re: [Distutils] Python 2.4.3

2006-10-04 Thread John Machin
On 5/10/2006 5:05 AM, Radwan, Neveen wrote: Can you let me know if there is a way to install this application silently on a system (ie. No dialog boxes) – are there any command line switches I can use? Hello, Neveen, This should answer your question:

Re: [Distutils] Setuptools for Python 2.5

2006-09-20 Thread John Machin
On 21/09/2006 10:04 AM, Phillip J. Eby wrote: At 03:07 PM 9/16/2006 +1000, John Machin wrote: I tried to use 2.5c1 to run ez_setup.py; it looked in the cheeseshop, but terminated rather ungracefully with an HTTP 404 error. 0.6c3 is in the Cheeseshop now, with support for Python 2.5. Thanks

[Distutils] setuptools: egg traceback seems not very informative

2006-09-18 Thread John Machin
Hello all, Example below, with distutils setup of same package under Python 2.5 for comparison. Two problems: (1) Path of source file is part only of the path from the *development* machine and gives no clue as to where the egg is located on the runtime machine nor what Python version nor what

[Distutils] Windows; setup.py sdist --formats=gztar; permissions problem

2006-02-21 Thread John Machin
Hello there, This is creating directories with permissions drw-rw-rw-. A linux user reports that when using tar xvfz archivename the top-level directory is created but all other contents are rejected with messages like: tar: filename: Cannot open: Permission denied or tar: subdirectoryname: