[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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