| msg84168 - (view) |
Author: Steven Bethard (bethard) *  |
Date: 2009-03-25 23:32 |
| [Suggested in by John Machin] The 2.6.1 documentation consists of a *single* line: "distutils.command.bdist_msi — Build a Microsoft Installer binary package". The docs should explain briefly what an msi file is, and why a packager might want to use it instead of wininst. |
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| msg84172 - (view) |
Author: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) * |
Date: 2009-03-26 01:06 |
| Can you propose specific wording? |
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| msg84173 - (view) |
Author: Steven Bethard (bethard) * |
Date: 2009-03-26 01:19 |
| If no one beats me to it, I plan to do this at PyCon. |
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| msg84439 - (view) |
Author: Steven Bethard (bethard) * |
Date: 2009-03-29 22:33 |
| I'm thinking of stealing/condensing some of the text from here: http://www.dcl.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/home/loewis/msipackage.html Does that seem okay? Is any of that text no longer accurate? (E.g. does bdist_wininst now support Win64?) |
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| msg84444 - (view) |
Author: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) * |
Date: 2009-03-29 23:16 |
| That should all be correct still (except that the status has advanced); using it for the documentation is fine. It's just that it is more rationale than specification. |
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| msg84488 - (view) |
Author: Steven Bethard (bethard) * |
Date: 2009-03-30 04:14 |
| The original docs request was for a rationale for using bdist_msi instead of bdist_wininst, but you're right there should be something at least a little specification-y. And we probably want to keep it pretty short, so maybe something like:: .. class: distutils.command.build_bdist_msi.bdist_msi(Command) Builds a `Microsoft Installer`_ (.msi) binary package. .. _Microsoft Installer: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc185688(VS.85).aspx In most cases, the bdist_msi installer is a better choice than the bdist_wininst installer, because it provides better support for Win64 platforms, allows administrators to perform non-interactive installations, and allows installation through group policies. I'm on the fence as to whether or not to include the URL to the MSI info. That's probably as close to a specification as we can get, but it's probably unnecessary for 99% of the people who might read the bdist_msi docs. |
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| msg84904 - (view) |
Author: Georg Brandl (georg.brandl) * |
Date: 2009-03-31 21:05 |
| I'll wait for a patch from you, Steven. |
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| msg84923 - (view) |
Author: Steven Bethard (bethard) * |
Date: 2009-03-31 21:43 |
| Here you go. I built the docs with the attached patch, and everything looks about right to me now. |
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| msg84931 - (view) |
Author: Georg Brandl (georg.brandl) * |
Date: 2009-03-31 22:03 |
| Committed in r70905. |
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