[python-win32] McMillian Installer

[Fred Dixon]

On 6/21/05, Thomas Heller <theller at python.net> wrote:
> 
> "Schollnick, Benjamin" <Benjamin.Schollnick at xerox.com> writes:
> 
> >> > It's okay.... I just miss McMillian's installer...
> >> > It's unsupported, so I've moved to py2exe... But
> >> > McMillian's package seemed to be better with
> >> > the dependency issues.... And offered a few
> >> > features that don't exist in py2exe... (Or at least
> >> > are not easily handled in py2exe...)
> >> >
> >> > On the plus side, py2exe has handled packages lately
> >> > that I just could not get McMillian's installer
> >> > to work reliably with... Which is why I switched...
> >>
> >> I always wondered why no one picked up McMillan and continued
> >> to develop or at least maintain it - it's open source after
> >> all, isn't it?
> >
> > Yes... It was...
> >
> > In my case, I never was motivated, and I suspect it's got
> > quite complex code behind it...
> >
> > Py2exe is a good replacement... I'm generally happy, there's
> > only a few issues that I have not been able to solve.
> >
> > For example, making a plugin based, expandable, generic
> > build.py.... If I do, the typlibs that I attempt to import
> > die...
> >
> > Plus right now, I have solved the LsaLookupNames2 issue, but
> > it appears that I need different typelibs between W2000 & WinXp.
> > But here I am on a development XP system, and can't generate the
> > ones for 2000.... (Yes this isn't py2exe's fault... But....)
> 
> (Should I change the subject, again, to py2exe ? ;-)
> 
> We recently had this issue with wmi, which also needs different typelibs
> on XP and 2K, maybe you can look up the thread.
> Since Tim was only using the typelib wrapper to access some constants,
> it was possible to avoid the typelib at all by using some code I posted
> to find the constants at runtime.
> 
> The best solution, imo, would be to let the frozen exe create the
> wrapper at runtime if it is not found in the exe - but this may require
> some nontrivial pywin32 hacking.
> 
> Thomas
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what ever happend to cx_freeze instead of McMillian's installer ?
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