New submission from Kirill Smelkov : Recently I've tried to package python software into small in-house win32 distribution, and I had no luck to get it installing in auto mode. The problem is that bdist_wininst created installers do not support runtime options, and according to source files in PC/bdist_wininst/ there is no way to perform auto installation. This is in contrast to bdist_msi created installers, nsis installers, etc, who support one way or the other silent installation. E.g. for msi installers the following work: msiexec /i package.msi /qb for nsis installers, "/S" option works ./package.exe /S But there is just no way to install bdist_wininst created packages in silent mode. ---- So I'd like to join my "+1" to one of the wish from DistUtils20 wiki page: http://wiki.python.org/moin/DistUtils20 """ It would be great if installers generated by bdist_wininst supported a 'silent' flag for automated installs. The silent mode would allow the package to be installed without user intervention. -- Phil Rittenhouse """ +1, it would be really handy! ---- I think it is very inconvenient that default way for creating windows installers lacks it. ---------- messages: 17 nosy: kirr priority: wish status: unread title: wish: silent mode for bdist_wininst created installers _______________________________________________ Setuptools tracker http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue13 _______________________________________________