[Distutils] MSVC CRT woes

[Thomas Heller]

"Mark Hammond" <mhammond at skippinet.com.au> writes:

>> Since wininst.exe dynamically loads the Python dll (even different
>> versions), it is already fairly limited in the Python api it can use.
>> Avoiding the call to PyRun_SimpleFile is still an option.
>>
>> Isn't it fun to break the rules ;-) ?
>
> I did find a couple of other issues with breaking these rules:
> * PyRun_SimpleFile does not allow you to specify the "filename", so
> tracebacks indicate "<string>".  To get a filename means using additional
> "compile" functions too.
>
> * redirection of stdout/stderr don't work.  wininst.exe sets *its*
> stdout/stderr OK, but Python itself is using a *different* stdout/stderr, so
> the reopen has no effect.
>
> Multiple exes may turn out to be less hassle in the long run (except for the
> person who needs to build wininst_vc6.exe and wininst_vc7.exe)

Ok, doesn't sound like too much fun anymore.  I'll take the multi exe approach.

> And re the other thread about MSVC7 directories:  I will update the patch to
> falling back to the registry to try and locate this directory - this seems
> like a reasonable approach, and should work in almost all cases.

Tim Peters reported that MSVC7 cannot be installed on win98, so this
limits the variations that have to be supported.

Thomasa