[python-win32] MSI installer or zip file for pywin32?

[Bill Janssen]

Mark Hammond <skippy.hammond at gmail.com> wrote:

> >> As far as the system DLLs, last time I checked they do have to
> >> be in the system32 directory (or the wow64 version.)  But I could be wrong -
> >> I didn't play with that very much. If it works without installing system
> >> DLLs I'd be curious to know.
> >
> > Me, too.  I'm guessing you need to do this, to be able to have things
> > like windows services find them.  But I'd sure like confirmation of that.
> > I'm planning to incorporate what's necessary in the post-install for my
> > package.
> 
> That's correct - stuff like services and COM requires the DLLs in 
> system32 - however, you can probably see in the post-install script that 
> if the user selects to install Python itself "just for me" then pywin32 
> doesn't try and copy to system32 etc - if Python itself doesn't have its 
> DLL in system32, pywin32 can't work in those embedded contexts 
> regardless of what it tries to do...

Mark, my system is a dozen or so Python programs plus a few Windows
services implemented in Python.  If I set those up to hack the "Path"
environment variable appropriately before importing stuff, could I put
the three DLLs somewhere else instead of C:\WINDOWS\System32\?

Bill