At 02:34 PM 8/24/2007 +1000, james.mills@au.pwc.com wrote:

When I do a: python setup.py bdist_wininst

the resulting installer installs the python package but _does not_ install setuptools on a system that doesn't have it.

I've tried to work out what I'm donig wrong for the past couple of hours now with no luck :/ Would appreciate some help!

bdist_wininst (or any bdist_* format other than eggs) doesn't install dependencies. Bundling ez_setup only affects source installs.