[IPython-dev] A question on the win32 installer

[Fernando Perez]

On 5/14/07, Ville M. Vainio <vivainio at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yeah, we could merge them into one script. In fact, I think we should
> only have one script that the installer launches, and most of the work
> would be performed by a normal functions, e.g.
> IPython.installer.shortcuts - which, when launched outside the windows
> installer, would of course require pywin32 exension.

Agreed.

> I don't see too much rush with this, though. Does anyone even use the
> manual install script?

No big rush, no.  I just wanted to clarify what's going on, mostly for
my own sake.  I suspect the manual installer isn't very widely used,
but I'm just guessing.

Thanks for the feedback.

Cheers,

f