[Distutils] custom install directory with bdist_wininst

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Jeremy Hylton wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 10:53, Juergen Hermann wrote:
> 
>>--install-data should work on Windows (while --home is Unix centric). 
>>That is out of the box, and of course you can always overload the 
>>command class for more complex things.
> 
> I'm not sure if I understand.  Is this an argument that the user passes
> to the Windows installer upon execution?  I'm not interested in
> arguments to install, but in allowing user similar control using a
> binary installer.

While the source code for the wininst installer is available, I'm
not sure whether it would be easy to add this kind of functionality.

You will probably want to use a different installer on Windows for
these things, such as InnoSetup -- a bdist_inno would be *really*
nice to have, because Inno offers so much more flexibility.

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