[Distutils] windows installer

[Robin Becker]

In article <200109060332.f863Ww710765@xevious.dstc.monash.edu.au>, David
Arnold <arnold@dstc.monash.edu.au> writes
>i have a problem with the bdist_wininst target for one of my projects.
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>what do people think about allowing an additional option in the
>setup.cfg, understood by bdist_wininst (and, more particularly,
>wininst.exe) that is the name of a script to be run by the selected
>interpreter after completing the installation?
>
>i could then install a `post_wininst.py' script, add it setup.cfg, and
>when run from wininst.exe, it could do the post-installation things, and
>if necessary, even remove itself when done.  when the script exits,
>wininst.exe can splash the final wizard pane, and exit.
>
>comments?
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sounds excellent, if not already present it should be. I'm told inno et
al allow pre and post execution.
-- 
Robin Becker