Marc-Andre wrote:
* make "wininst" the default format on Windows; I'm not aware of any problems with this spiffy little self-installing ZIP file generator, so why the heck not make it the default?
It's cool, yes... but it didn't work for me (I seem to be the unlucky guy in this forum ;-() with Tim's Python 2.0 pre-release: it says that it can't find a usable Python installation and the [...] button doesn't allow me to select a proper target.
I'll try again with the final 1.6 Windows version.
The status of bdist_wininst in the 1.6 and 2.0b distributions is a little bit messy. This is partly because I have been very busy with private things over the last four weeks. My apologies for this. 1.6 final has distutils version 0.9.1. bdist_wininst still uses the old GUI, and only (hardcoded) knows about the 1.5 and 1.6 python versions in the registy. It also has some bugs which were fixed in the meantime: 'setup.py bdist_wininst' fails when the 'dist' directory does not exist. 2.0b1 has distutils version 0.9.2. bdist_wininst uses the new GUI, no hardcoded python version strings any more, no requirement for zlib. Seems to work fine, although some features are missing: - does not take care of the 'extra_path' argument. - does not compile pyc and/or pyo files. I have prepared a new version, which I will check in as soon as I get ssh installed and working correctly. Thomas