At 09:48 PM 9/11/2010 +0200, Manlio Perillo wrote:
Is it possible to put required DLLs inside an egg?
Yes, but they have to be adjacent to any Python extensions (.pyd's) that use them.
1. A primary reason people have for using bdist_wininst installers is uninstall support, and this approach will leave dependencies behind.
As far as I know, all dependencies are correctly handled. Shortcuts are correctly removed by the uninstall.
But the dependencies installed by easy_install will not get corresponding uninstall entries in the Windows control panel, and so will not be uninstalled when the user uninstalls the main application or library.
By the way, I tried to install pywin32, but I got:
AFAIK, pywin32 is not easy_install-able due to some post-install incompatibilities.