On Jul 15, 2013, at 6:24 PM, Donald Stufft <donald@stufft.io> wrote:
On Jul 15, 2013, at 6:22 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore@gmail.com> wrote:
On 15 July 2013 23:09, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal <chris.barker@noaa.gov> wrote:
For simple cases yes, but we have bdist_wininst and bdist_msi for those, and they are clearly not enough.
but they are really widely used -- maybe when binary wheels become ubiqitous, I'll stop using them, but I'm no command line phobic, and I usually go first to look for an installer on Windows.
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 :-(
I'm not against someone writing a GUI. But it won't be me :-)
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There is something like 200 total bdist_msi on PyPI and 5k bdist_wininst.
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To put numbers into perspective, there are ~180k total files uploaded to PyPI. ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA