[Python-Dev] Py2.4 pre-alpha snapshot (original) (raw)

Thomas Heller theller at python.net
Tue Dec 9 06:41:44 EST 2003

martin at v.loewis.de (Martin v. =?iso-8859-15?q?L=F6wis?=) writes:

Thomas Heller <theller at python.net> writes:

> Yes. If nobody beats me in that, I'll do it over Christmas.

How's your msi builder going? I would be interested to try it out - although I probably don't have too much time over Christmas. I got so far that I can initialize the schema, i.e. I have code that takes the current schema, and dumps it into a Python source file, which, when run, will restore the schema. This includes data for the validation and install sequence tables. I was next looking at including the actual files, and was planning to supply a single CAB stream. I got stuck finding a CAB API, and plan to invoke cabarc.exe instead to generate the CAB file.

I hacked together a very simple cab creator using ctypes , maybe you find it useful - there's also a link to the Cabinet SDK on the page, which is not required but contains the docs (it is only 400kB or so).

http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/moin.cgi/CreateCab

This was a couple of weeks ago, I have made no progress since.

Thomas

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