[Distutils] Windows web based installation of multiple packages

[Lloyd Kvam]

On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 09:08 -0500, Mark Hammond wrote:
> > It is quite easy to use the bdist_wininst command to create a 
> > Windows installer executable.  A browser click on a link to 
> > the .EXE file allows for software installation, but 
> > easy_install is not run and the packages listed in 
> > setup.install_requires are not installed.  Is there a way to 
> > force the windows installer to run easy_install?
> > 
> > If I were to create an egg, is there a content-type heading 
> > that would cause easy_install to process the egg?
> >         (much like application/vnd.ms-excel) I could not find 
> > an easy_install entry in the registry in my test WinXP 
> > computer after installing setuptools.
> > 
> > I thought one of these approaches would be fairly easy, but 
> > googling and experimenting have gotten me nowhere.
> 
> bdist_wininst is designed to install a python package, not to install a
> python "application" which has external dependencies.  You may like to
> consider py2exe, which is designed to create a stand-alone executable from
> your python app - but even then, eggs etc are not processed - you are
> expected to have all relevant packages installed on your dev box, and they
> are packaged inside the app.

Thanks for the reply.  I have deadlines to meet, so I guess I'll be
taking the py2exe approach for now.


However, I'm still interested in setting up the associations so that an
HTTP content-type header for .egg files could be associated with
easy_install.  I assume if it were trivial it would have been done by
now.

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2006-September/006734.html
has some thoughts from Phillip Eby about automatic execution of
easy_install.

I will tackle getting my Linux computers to handle an egg/easy_install
content-type and then figure out the patches for setuptools so that this
can be automatic.  Hopefully the Windows situation will be reasonably
parallel to Linux.  Suggestions and advice are welcome.

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Lloyd Kvam
Venix Corp