RE: [Distutils] Unravelling installation schemes
From: Mark W. Alexander
Why does everyone seem to think that the prefered method of Distutils package installations is "setup.py install"?
FWIW, I agree. On Windows I *always* do setup.py bdist_wininst and then run the generated installer. This gives me an uninstall option, which "raw" distutils doesn't. This is *not* a plea for uninstall capability in distutils :-) Paul.
"Moore, Paul"
From: Mark W. Alexander
Why does everyone seem to think that the prefered method of Distutils package installations is "setup.py install"?
FWIW, I agree. On Windows I *always* do setup.py bdist_wininst and then run the generated installer. This gives me an uninstall option, which "raw" distutils doesn't.
For this I have a recipe in the Python Cookbook (probably must be brought up to date for Python 2.3) which automates this: You can create a shortcut on the desktop where you can drag source distributions in .zip or .tar.gz format, the bdist_wininst installer is then built and run. http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/117248 Thomas
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Moore, Paul
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Thomas Heller