[Distutils] problem with bdist_msi post-install script

Bill Janssen janssen at parc.com
Mon Mar 22 17:51:28 CET 2010


Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

> > But this doesn't look quite complete.  I don't see where the Python
> > interpreter is actually invoked here.  (Cute trick swapping the args,
> > by the way).
> > 
> > Which is presumably why, in finalize_options, we find:
> > 
> >         if self.pre_install_script:
> >             raise DistutilsOptionError, "the pre-install-script feature is not yet implemented"
> > 
> > Shouldn't the custom action be this:
> > 
> >             add_data(self.db, "CustomAction",
> >                 [("PreInstall", 2, "PreInstall", '"PYTHON"'),
> >                 ])
> 
> I don't remember the details, but one problem might have been that
> custom action 2 is defined as "EXE file stored in a Binary table
> stream." Not sure whether batch files are even allowed here.
> 
> In any case, the value should probably be '"[PYTHON]"', then so that the
> property gets expanded.

Ah, thanks.

Bill


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