Chris Withers wrote:
> [following up on distutils-sig]
>
> Michael Foord wrote:
>> Many Windows users would be quite happy if the standard mechanism for
>> installing non-source distributions on Windows was via the wininst
>> binaries.
>
> ...and many users may not be ;-) I know I'd be extremely unhappy if that
> were the case as I routines use multiple versions of packages with
> multiple versions of python on one machine...
>
>> I wonder if it is going to be possible to make this compatible with
>> the upcoming distutils package management 'stuff' (querying for
>> installed packages, uninstallation etc) since
>> installation/uninstallation goes through the Windows system package
>> management feature. I guess it would be eminently possible but
>> require some reasonably high level Windows-fu to do.
>
> I wouldn't have a problem if integrating with the windows package
> manager was an optional extra, but I think it's one of many types of
> package management that need to be worried about, so might be easier to
> get the others working and let anyone who wants anything beyond a
> pure-python packaging system that works across platforms, regardless of
> whether binary extensions are needed, do the work themselves...
>
> Chris
>
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