Thanks for your reply. Yes. I am trying to build an MSI installer file using python. Thank you for the pointers. I'll see if I can glean any information from that and who know even post a short tutorial ;). Thanks again.
Kent Johnson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I was wondering if anyone can offer any examples, pointers, tutorials, >> or howtos on developing an MSI installer file for windows using >> Python. I found the msilib reference in the Python 2.5 documents, >> but I am not familiar with this area and I am trying find any examples >> (code wise) that implement the msilib. I did check Google, but there >> did not seem to be any good leads. Thanks in advance, > > Are you trying to create an MSI installer of a Python program or > something else? > > The docs for msilib indicate that it supports creation of MSI files for > Python programs with the bdist_msi command in distutils. bdist_msi seems > to be included with Python 2.5, it is in > lib/distutils/command/bdist_msi, but it doesn't seem to be documented in > the distutils docs. Here is a little bit about it: > http://www.dcl.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/home/loewis/bdist_msi/ > > General information about using distutils is here: > http://docs.python.org/dist/dist.html > > I have never used distutils myself (other than to install stuff) so I > probably can't give you much more help than this. > > Kent > > > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
