On 2009-10-27 18:41 PM, David Lyon wrote:
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:51:10 +0100, Tarek Ziadé<ziade.tarek@gmail.com> wrote:
$ easy_install your_bdist_wininst_dist.exe
will install it and process the dependencies from the install_requires option.
And pip should be compatible soon too. That makes this format a perfect binary format for win32.
I'm not sure about that Tarek..
An .exe installer as a perfect binary format for python packages?
Are you serious?
That is the biggest security threat I can think of, asking python users to run unverified, unsigned, un-trusted executable files on their systems.
easy_install does not execute the executable. bdist_wininst installers are zip files concatenated with an executable header. easy_install just unzips the file as if it were a zipped egg and ignores the executable part. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco