Mark Hammond wrote:
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9/09/2009 1:57 AM, Timothy W. Grove wrote:
I have successfully built a windows installer for my python program
using distutils, (python setup.py bdist_wininst), but is there a way to
do it that will allow a user ('user' == 'boss', in this case!) to
designate the installation directory, rather than being forced to
install into /Python/Lib/site-packages ? Thanks for any help.
bdist_wininst is for packaging python modules or packages and so
depends on Python itself being installed. As a result, it only
installs into where Python libs and modules are generally installed.
It sounds like you are looking for something to create a stand-alone
version of your program - in that case you are probably looking for
py2exe to create the application itself, and something like Inno or
NSYS to create an installer which allows the user to specify where
they want it installed and doesn't depend on Python already being
installed.
Cheers,
Mark
Your advice sounds like the direction I may have to go. It was just that
when I run the distutils "installer", I'm presented with a setup dialog
which shows the install directory as /Python26 /site-packages/ in an
uneditable text field. I thought that there might be an easy way to make
that editable in order to change the path to a user defined directory,
although I might also want to drop a .pth file into the site-packages
directory so python knows where the application really is installed.
Thanks for your advice.
Best regards,
Tim
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