[Distutils] wheels and installation time

[Donald Stufft]

Not currently. There’s an open issue about how to handle that within Wheels as a few projects need those kinds of hooks.

On Jun 12, 2014, at 5:21 AM, Robin Becker <robin at reportlab.com> wrote:

> In the past reportlab used .exe packages for the various windows distributions. However, we recently decided to use wheels. With patches to support cross platform compilation I can build these on win xp win32 for win32 & amd64. The wheels themselves work fine.
> 
> However, in the past we used to support installation time options eg create a start menu folder where some of our scripts could be easily found, desktop icons etc etc. I looked in the pip 1.5.6 code, but could not see any place where installation time scripts could be built. Is there a way to get scripts run at installation time?
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