[Python-Dev] [Python-3000] 2.6.1 and 3.0 (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Wed Nov 26 21:34:18 CET 2008

Wix is an msi creator (open source) that takes XML files as the input. It is also capable of creating 64bit installers. At Resolver Systems we use CPython scripts to generate the XML as input for Wix.

It would still need some code therefore, but maybe simpler if someone wanted to do the work. :-)

I had looked at WiX before, and found that it can't do out of the box what I want to do - I still would need to generate the input files, e.g. with a script (and I'm happy to hear that you can confirm that analysis).

I also had quite some problems understanding it, and can understand msi.py much better (surprise, surprise). For a newcomer, my feeling is that learning WiX and learning msi.py is about the same effort - you really need to "get" MSI files.

Regards, Martin

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