[Distutils] wheels and installation time

[Nick Coghlan]

On 13 Jun 2014 02:01, "Donald Stufft" <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
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> Not currently. There’s an open issue about how to handle that within
Wheels as a few projects need those kinds of hooks.

To elaborate a little further on that, install time scripts are one of the
main motivators for "required extensions" in PEP 426 - it means that
deciding on an install hook design can be postponed until *after* the
initial metadata 2.0 definition, so there's an opportunity to experiment
with different approaches before blessing one as the official way of
requesting them.

Cheers,
Nick.

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