[Python-Dev] bdist_wininst

[Walter Dörwald]

Thomas Heller wrote:

> bdist_wininst has seen a lot of bug fixes and improvements, mostly by
> Mark, partly by me.
> 
> I'd like to 'improve' the visual appearance, too.

One improvement would be proper treatment of Unicode. Currently it
doesn't seem to be possible to use unicode objects with umlauts in the
arguments to distutils.core.setup(). Some of my Windows packages say
"Author: Walter Dxf6rwald"

Bye,
    Walter Dörwald