"M.-A. Lemburg" <mal@lemburg.com> writes:
Jeremy Hylton wrote:
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 10:53, Juergen Hermann wrote:
--install-data should work on Windows (while --home is Unix centric). That is out of the box, and of course you can always overload the command class for more complex things. I'm not sure if I understand. Is this an argument that the user passes to the Windows installer upon execution? I'm not interested in arguments to install, but in allowing user similar control using a binary installer.
While the source code for the wininst installer is available, I'm not sure whether it would be easy to add this kind of functionality.
Correct.
You will probably want to use a different installer on Windows for these things, such as InnoSetup -- a bdist_inno would be *really* nice to have, because Inno offers so much more flexibility.
This is one possibility, another one is to treat the bdist_wininst created installer as a zipfile, and use a Python script to extract the files and install them. I have no need for either of them, and no time (not motivation) to write them. Thomas