[Python-Dev] Packaging and binary distributions (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Tue Nov 8 20:34:01 CET 2011

I'm curious to know how this level of flexibility can be achieved with the MSI format: I know one can code the equivalent logic in C (for example) in a custom action, but don't know how you can keep the logic in Python.

I'd provide a fixed custom action which gets hold of the installer session, and then runs a Python script. IIUC, it should be possible to map categories to entries in the Directory table, so that the Python script would actually configure the installer process before the installer actually starts installing the files. The DLL could be part of packaging, similar to how the bdist_wininst executable is part of distutils.

Regards, Martin

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