[Distutils] windows installer and setuptools

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 06:27 AM 10/16/2007 +0200, henk-jan ebbers wrote:
>Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>>At 12:22 AM 10/16/2007 +0200, henk-jan ebbers wrote:
>>>2 questions:
>>>
>>>1. Can I use the (great) dependency handling of setuptools in a windows
>>>installer, eg by packing a python egg in a windows installer?
>>No.  It's an either-or thing.  However, easy_install *can* resolve 
>>dependencies using bdist_wininst downloads.
>>
>>>2. When I make a windows installer (bdist_wininst) I assumed the windows
>>>installer is python-version independent.  (BTW, I use setuptools.)
>>>But, when making the installer with python 2.4, and installing with
>>>python 2.5, my package is installed in the right place (python 2.5), but
>>>the egg-info is installed as bots-1.1.0-py2.4.egg-info.
>>>As far as I can see, this is not a problem for running my application.
>>It would be if something else depended on it.
>>
>>>But, is this how this is supposed to be?
>>No.  Setuptools should always mark its windows installers as Python 
>>version-specific, as they are not portable, even if the package 
>>doesn't contain extensions.
>Thanks for answering
>but is this an error?
>in disutils?

It's a setuptools error if it wrote the .exe without including py2.4 
in the filename.

Otherwise, it's operator error if you installed a py2.4 .exe into 
Python 2.5.  :)