On 12/15/05, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> For persons like Paul Moore who want to wrap egg-based packages in Windows
> installers, note that you can now take a setuptools-based package's source
> and run "setup.py bdist_wininst" and it will build a usable .exe.
>
> In addition, you can build Windows installer-wrapped eggs for
> non-setuptools packages by changing your command line from:
>
> python setup.py bdist_wininst
>
> to:
> python -c "import setuptools;execfile('setup.py')" bdist_wininst
>
> This will build an .exe that includes .egg-info, so that other packages
> will be able to detect it at runtime.
Massively cool! Thank you for putting this in place.
Paul.
