From: "David Arnold" arnold@dstc.monash.edu.au
-->"Marc-Andre" == M -A Lemburg mal@lemburg.com writes: Marc-Andre> bdist_wininst is perfect for pure Python packages and Marc-Andre> probably most binary extensions too, but there are a Marc-Andre> small number of instances which do require more Marc-Andre> functionality and since Inno Setup is free, I thought it Marc-Andre> would be a good idea to add support for it to distutils.
one feature i would dearly like (and it might even be provided by the current installer?) is the ability to run unattended installs from the scheduler.
we do automated nightly build/test stuff, and at the moment, my Python packages are not tested on windows because i can't find a way to get the installer to run unattended.
does anyone know if the current bdist_wininst can do this? i'd be interested in helping to add it, either via Inno or otherwise.
No, it cannot. But it would probably be a useful feature...
Another possibility is the following: bdist_wininst created exe-Files are also zip-Files, and can be opened by Winzip and probably also Info-Zip's unzip program. So you _could_ write a batch file which unzips the distribution into a certain place.
(That reminds me that I have promised to write more docs for bdist_wininst. Later, as usual.)
Thomas