[Distutils] Unravelling installation schemes

[Thomas Heller]

"Moore, Paul" <Paul.Moore at atosorigin.com> writes:

> From: Mark W. Alexander
>> Why does everyone seem to think that the prefered method of Distutils
>> package installations is "setup.py install"?
>
> FWIW, I agree. On Windows I *always* do setup.py bdist_wininst and then
> run the generated installer. This gives me an uninstall option, which
> "raw" distutils doesn't.

For this I have a recipe in the Python Cookbook (probably must be
brought up to date for Python 2.3) which automates this: You can create
a shortcut on the desktop where you can drag source distributions in
.zip or .tar.gz format, the bdist_wininst installer is then built and
run.

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/117248

Thomas