[Distutils] console scripts in distutils

[Paul Moore]

2009/2/14 Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com>:
> I really like the way setuptools wraps scripts depending on the platform.
>
> http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools#automatic-script-creation
>
> I am not talking about the entry_point feature, but the way it creates
> executables.
>
> What would people think about making that feature go into distutils
> itself to enhance the current script behavior?

I mentioned this on the ticket, but I'm adding it here for comments:

If this is to go into the stdlib, can it be implemented in such a way
that creating a bdist_wininst installer for a pure-python package with
wrapped scripts does *not* make the package version-dependent?

Paul.