<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jul 15, 2013, at 6:24 PM, Donald Stufft <<a href="mailto:donald@stufft.io">donald@stufft.io</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jul 15, 2013, at 6:22 PM, Paul Moore <<a href="mailto:p.f.moore@gmail.com">p.f.moore@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 15 July 2013 23:09, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chris.barker@noaa.gov" target="_blank">chris.barker@noaa.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">> For simple cases yes, but we have<br>
> bdist_wininst and bdist_msi for those, and they are clearly not enough.<br>
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</div>but they are really widely used -- maybe when binary wheels become<br>
ubiqitous, I'll stop using them, but I'm no command line phobic, and I<br>
usually go first to look for an installer on Windows.</blockquote></div><br>The killer issue with bdist_wininst and bdist_msi is that they don't work with virtualenvs. I was a fan of them till I started using virtualenv, at which point they become totally useless :-(</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I'm not against someone writing a GUI. But it won't be me :-)</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Paul</div></div>
_______________________________________________<br>Distutils-SIG maillist - <a href="mailto:Distutils-SIG@python.org">Distutils-SIG@python.org</a><br><a href="http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig">http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig</a><br></blockquote></div><br><div>There is something like 200 total bdist_msi on PyPI and 5k bdist_wininst.</div><div>
<br>-----------------<br>Donald Stufft<br>PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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<br></div>_______________________________________________<br>Distutils-SIG maillist - <a href="mailto:Distutils-SIG@python.org">Distutils-SIG@python.org</a><br><a href="http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig">http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig</a><br></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>To put numbers into perspective, there are ~180k total files uploaded to PyPI.<br><div>
<br>-----------------<br>Donald Stufft<br>PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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