Ok, Maybe I will make the question shorter : is distutils the right tool for the problems described below ? Or should I rather use a tool like InnoSetup or a Windows installer (made in .NET) ? Benedikt Naessens. I want to make a Windows installer - using distutils - for the Python code I have made so far. Related to this, I have some questions about the "best way" to do this. The project is a test platform that should be used for internal use in our company. What are my problems ? * I am using Nose, PyQt etc. : how do I make sure that these packages are installed with my installer ? The main problem is here that most of the PC's in the company are behind a firewall that not allows them to download these packages from the internet (internet browsers are handled by a remote desktop) * Maybe related to the previous issue : I have written a plugin for Nose; this plugin needs to be "registered" with Nose (manually I do this with easy_install); can I do this also with distutils ? * I am also using SWIG for some code written in C++. I have already read the documentation of distutils where they advise me to build my code with distutils. Problem is that this C++ project is already rather large and that the .pyd is already generated (so I'd rather would not like to declare all my .i and .cpp files in a setup.py file). Do I have to include the generated .pyd, .lib and .py as "package data" into setup.py or are there better ways ? Maybe this sounds trivial to a lot of you, but as I am using Python for 1.5 months, I'd like to have some help from specialists ... Thanks in advance ! Benedikt Naessens. Disclaimer This e-mail and its attachments is intended only for the person(s) or entity to which it is addressed. If you receive this e-mail by mistake, please delete this e-mail from your system and destroy all copies of it. It may contain confidential and/or privileged information. You should not copy it or use it for any purpose nor disclose its contents to any person unless allowed by a written document between the sender and the addressee.