[Python-Dev] Windows MSI installer with minimal options (original) (raw)

Paul Kippes kippesp at gmail.com
Wed Aug 4 07:00:27 CEST 2010

Martin,

For the most part, the information at http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.4/msi/ assisted me with automating a 2.7 installation on Windows XP. The following initial attempt, however, failed to provide a working python installation. (Messages are either "The system cannot execute the specified program." or "This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.")

msiexec /qb /i python-2.7.msi ALLUSERS=1 ADDLOCAL=Extensions

After looking through Tools/msi/msi.py, I was able to automate a minimal and working Python installation with this adjustment:

ADDLOCAL=Extensions,SharedCRT

Since the only reference I could find to the above web page was when the MSI installer was first announced (http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.4.2), the installer options may have changed since then.

Would you check if my change is what you intended and perhaps migrate the web page of the 2.4 release note to 2.7?

Thanks!

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