"Stephen Hansen" <me+list/pyt...@ixokai.io> wrote in message news:mailman.2344.1277821469.32709.python-l...@python.org... > On 6/29/10 12:27 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >> In message<4c286d71$0$18654$4fafb...@reader3.news.tin.it>, superpollo >> wrote: >> >>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro ha scritto: >>>> >>>> Is it really such a hassle to install things on Windows? >>> >>> no, but it *IS* to explain it to dumb users... :-( >> >> Can't you create an installation package that specifies Python and all >> the >> other necessary dependencies, so the Windows package-management system >> will >> automatically pull the right versions in when the user does the >> installation? > > At first, on reading this, I assumed it was sarcastic (and sort of decided > not to reply, because anti-windows is too easy); but on reading again I'm > not so sure, you're writing it all out so .. dry. Then again, 'hearing' > tone in text is hard. > > If this isn't sarcastic: windows has no package management system. You > include every dependency manually (in varying forms) or things don't run. > > Windows has a way to track what you install, and the ability to uninstall > about three fourths of it later. That's it. > > -- > > ... Stephen Hansen > ... Also: Ixokai > ... Mail: me+list/python (AT) ixokai (DOT) io > ... Blog: http://meh.ixokai.io/ >
Not that I am a supporter of Windows nor an expert at MSI BUT later versions of Visual Studio do have a mechanism for building a package. I know it's not in VC6, but is in VS.2008. HTH, Bill -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
