July 15, 2013
10:22 p.m.
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 :-) Paul