[Distutils] Unravelling installation schemes

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 06:53 AM 3/10/04 +0000, Moore, Paul wrote:
>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.

Clever idea.  I think I'll try that myself.  Indeed, it might be amusing to 
make a 'winstall' command that does bdist_wininst and then runs the executable!


>This is *not* a plea for uninstall capability in distutils :-)

I think some other folks actually *are* working on that, however.