[New-bugs-announce] [issue18491] Add "exe wrapper" functionality to Windows launcher

[Paul Moore]

New submission from Paul Moore:

Adds "exe wrapper" functionality to the Windows launcher. This is a preliminary patch, for comments - the code is there and works, but I need to add documentation (and maybe tests - are there any existing tests for the launcher?)

Also to be considered: should the launcher be bundled somewhere accessible to Python code (locating where the launcher has been installed is a non-trivial task) and supplementing that, should there be some sort of wrapper creation API in the standard library. The script wrapper functionality in distlib may be a good model for this, but may be too complex. I'd rather see this patch accepted without support code than see it deferred due to concerns about the quality/design of additional support code.

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assignee: vinay.sajip
components: Windows
messages: 193300
nosy: pmoore, vinay.sajip
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: patch review
status: open
title: Add "exe wrapper" functionality to Windows launcher
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.4

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