[Python-Dev] bdist_wininst (original) (raw)

Walter Dörwald walter at livinglogic.de
Fri Jul 16 22:04:32 CEST 2004

Thomas Heller wrote:

bdistwininst has seen a lot of bug fixes and improvements, mostly by Mark, partly by me. I'd like to 'improve' the visual appearance, too.

One improvement would be proper treatment of Unicode. Currently it doesn't seem to be possible to use unicode objects with umlauts in the arguments to distutils.core.setup(). Some of my Windows packages say "Author: Walter Dxf6rwald" Walter, can you try out the attached patch? It seems to work for me. Both for unicode and ascii strings as author name, containing an umlaut.

Installing http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.4/Python-2.4a1.msi, applying your patch to the CVS version and copying the distutils directory over C:\Programme\Python24\Lib\distutils gives me the following:

c:\programme\python24\python setup.py bdist --formats=wininst running bdist running bdist_wininst running build running build_py Traceback (most recent call last): File "setup.py", line 50, in ? package_dir={"ll": ""} File "c:\programme\python24\lib\distutils\core.py", line 150, in setup dist.run_commands() File "c:\programme\python24\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 951, in run_commands self.run_command(cmd) File "c:\programme\python24\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 971, in run_command cmd_obj.run() File "c:\programme\python24\lib\distutils\command\bdist.py", line 146, in run self.run_command(cmd_name) File "c:\programme\python24\lib\distutils\cmd.py", line 333, in run_command self.distribution.run_command(command) File "c:\programme\python24\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 971, in run_command cmd_obj.run() File "c:\programme\python24\lib\distutils\command\bdist_wininst.py", line 127, in run assert self.skip_build, "Should have already checked this" AssertionError: Should have already checked this

Bye, Walter Dörwald

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