[issue5095] msi missing from "bdist --help-formats"

Tarek Ziadé added the comment: added in r71291 and r71293 Thx Steven -- status: open -> closed versions: +Python 3.0 -Python 2.5, Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.1 ___ Python tracker _

[issue5095] msi missing from "bdist --help-formats"

Steven Bethard added the comment: The following 2 line patch adds "msi" to the list of formats (patch against py3k trunk). I'm pretty sure this is all that it takes, but I'd appreciate if someone with more distutils experience could glance at it. -- keywords: +needs review Added file: h

[issue5095] msi missing from "bdist --help-formats"

Steven Bethard added the comment: You're right that the msi feature could use some more documentation. I created a documentation feature request: issue5563. As to why the .msi is specific to the creating version of Python, it's because no one has written the code necessary to be version agnosti

[issue5095] msi missing from "bdist --help-formats"

John Machin added the comment: The 2.6.1 documentation consists of a *single* line: "distutils.command.bdist_msi — Build a Microsoft Installer binary package". AFAICT this is the *only* mention of "msi" in the docs (outside the msilib module). I heard about it only by word-of-mouth. Docs should

[issue5095] msi missing from "bdist --help-formats"

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[issue5095] msi missing from "bdist --help-formats"

New submission from Steven Bethard : The bdist_msi command is documented in the distutils reference: http://docs.python.org/distutils/apiref.html#module-distutils.command.bdist_msi But it does not show up with "bdist --help-formats" $ python setup.py bdist --help-formats List of available dist