At 03:03 PM 4/9/2009 +0100, Paul Moore wrote:

2009/4/9 Eric Smith <eric@trueblade.com>:

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Paul Moore wrote:

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An egg->bdist_wininst converter would fix this issue. As would everyone standardising on bdist_wininst (which, as per the previous message, appears to be prefectly feasible given that bdist_wininst seems to be a strict superset of egg...)

I don't think this is true. I don't think bdist_wininst supports the buildout use case where I want to install multiple versions of multiple packages in different (or even the same) directory. This is a critical use case for Zope/Plone apps.

OK, I'm making that statement based on some earlier comments. I've probably misunderstood them.

But I thought easy_install could take a bdist_wininst installer and use it to make an egg?

Yes, it can. You could also, in principle, reverse the process. However, the resulting bdist_wininst wouldn't support multiple versions, because the bdist_wininst infrastructure doesn't support that.