Re: [python-win32] Building pywin32 msi installers

2013-06-21 Thread Will Sadkin
On 20/06/2013 3:16 AM , Mark Hammond wrote: I've wanted bdist_msi to work for ages. There was some issue with the install scripts that always caused grief, and my memory is hazy - it *might* be that the uninstall process doesn't run the post-install script at the correct time - ie, that

Re: [python-win32] Building pywin32 msi installers

2013-06-20 Thread Mark Hammond
I've wanted bdist_msi to work for ages. There was some issue with the install scripts that always caused grief, and my memory is hazy - it *might* be that the uninstall process doesn't run the post-install script at the correct time - ie, that it runs *after* the uninstall, which means pywin32

[python-win32] Building pywin32 msi installers

2013-06-19 Thread Will Sadkin
Hi All, I really need to be able to do a silent install of the pywin32 package for python2.7, so I started looking at the distutils bdist_msi option, to see if I could get that working for pywin32. Although I *was eventually able to do so,* I ran into several problems that I had to work