[Python-Dev] Distutils and Distribute roadmap (and some words on Virtualenv, Pip) (original) (raw)

Steven Bethard steven.bethard at gmail.com
Wed Oct 21 07:05:51 CEST 2009

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 7:44 PM, David Cournapeau <cournape at gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 5:49 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

2009/10/20 Chris Withers <chris at simplistix.co.uk>: There are many (I believe) Windows users for whom bdistwininst is just what they want. For those people, where's the incentive to switch in what you propose? You're not providing the features they currently have, and frankly "do the work yourself" is no answer (not everyone can, often for entirely legitimate reasons). I am not so familiar with msi or wininst internals, but isn't it possible to install w.r.t. a given prefix ?

This is definitely supported by the msi. In fact, you can do this at the command line (although I don't know if this is considered officially supported or not):

$ argparse-1.0.2.win32-py2.6.msi /quiet TARGETDIR=C:\TempPython $ dir C:\TempPython\Lib\site-packages Volume in drive C has no label. Volume Serial Number is B6E6-4B4D

Directory of C:\TempPython\Lib\site-packages

10/20/2009 10:04 PM . 10/20/2009 10:04 PM .. 10/20/2009 10:03 PM 1,584 argparse-1.0.2-py3.1.egg-info 10/09/2009 11:03 AM 86,620 argparse.py

Steve

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