[issue13276] bdist_wininst-created installer does not run the postinstallation script when uninstalling

2013-03-18 Thread Pierre Raybaut
Pierre Raybaut added the comment: How can I help to ensure that the patch submitted by Jason Roberts is actually taken into account in next releases of Python? I too would want to use this "remove" feature in distutils Windows installers. For example, I was confronted to this bug/

[issue15797] bdist_msi does not pass -install/remove flags to install_script

2013-03-22 Thread Pierre Raybaut
Pierre Raybaut added the comment: The submitted patch actually works (tested with Python 2.7.3 on Windows XP) and also fixes another bug: the installation script is executed when uninstalling (that feature is not implemented in current Python stable versions despite the mention in docstrings