[Python-Dev] re: The os module, unix and win32 (original) (raw)

Arthur ajsiegel at optonline.net
Sun Jan 11 19:07:59 EST 2004

Barry writes

At 09-01-2004 04:02, Arthur wrote:

But tangentially on topic - is the possibility of getting enough of the win32all API functions into the core distribution to give more Windows standard functionality to disutils - start menu entries in particular.

That needs COM support and that's a lot more API that is proposed for popen5 and similar. By the time you have COM support you have committed to include all of win32all in standard python. Which is basically what ActiveState Python is.

But Thomas (who should know) wrote:

bdistwininst can create Windows shortcuts in it's postinstall script.

Thomas (off-list) had also given me a cite to some code, which I haven't had the opportunity to try to digest.

Is this a semantic issue as to what can and cannot be done on Windows with disutils?

I thought I gathered from Thomas that the functionality he is referencing is new as of 2.3.

Is this the wrong place to be pursuing this?

Art

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