[Distutils] wininst.exe source

Rene Liebscher R.Liebscher@gmx.de
Wed Apr 4 04:21:01 2001


Rene Liebscher wrote:
> 
> Thomas Heller wrote:
> >
> > > where is the source for the WININST.EXE stub executable
> > > that is used for bdist_winist? i looked around but did
> > > not see it. is it created from some other 'installation
> > > tool', or is it simply a compiled program.
> > It's available via CVS, start here:
> > http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/?cvsroot=python
> >
> > Unfortunately, it is not yet built with distutils (what a shame).
> >
> It is no problem to build it with distutils.
> See the attached file.
>
> ... 
> 

There are two things which need to be corrected:
1. change the default of the force parameter of build_exe() to 0
2. add the missing "return" after line 54 

 
Kind regards
Rene Liebscher