[Distutils] Is it safe to embedding additional metadata in bdist_wininst installers ?

[P.J. Eby]

At 02:51 PM 6/15/2010 +0900, David Cournapeau wrote:
>I am interested in doing this for arbitrary packages (the goal is to 
>add support for egg <-> windows installer conversion in my packaging solution)

If your goal is to convert between eggs and bdist_wininst installers, 
you might want to take a look at the code that already exists in 
easy_install to convert bdist_wininst .exe files to .egg files -- 
even ones that weren't built by setuptools.

Converting the other way should also be similarly straightforward, so 
I'm curious what this other metadata is that you're asking about.