[Distutils] What binary formats should we be distributing?

[Piotr Dobrogost]

On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 12:25 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The wininst (exe) format is probably of limited value, It is of use for
> systems without pip where integration with add/remove programs is useful,
> but such systems are probably rare. But if you want to distribute a
> "standalone installer" format, exe is probably more familiar to Python
> package users than msi. On the downside, it doesn't work with virtualenvs.

It does work with virtualenv although only when used with easy_install
and not pip.
See http://stackoverflow.com/q/3271590/95735


Regards,
Piotr Dobrogost