Can't run "Python-2.1.exe" under NT...

Tim Peters tim.one at home.com
Wed Apr 25 19:57:20 EDT 2001


[David Bolen]
> ...
> But I may poke to see about replicating current behavior with ISX - is
> there an old Wise help file or something else to help decoding the wse
> file?  A lot of it is obvious, but some of the flags and what not
> aren't.

It's completely undocumented, AFAIK.  The .wse file is machine-generated:
when you're building a Wise installer, you write it in a funky Wise script
language from within a Wise GUI app.  The .wse file is akin to a Python .pyc
file, i.e. it's some internal, "lightly compiled" but invertible
representation of your script.  Given an unbounded amount of time to play
with it, I'm sure we could figure out which checkboxes (etc) in the GUI
corresponded to which .wse flag bits (etc) -- but it would go faster in the
end to write our own installer from scratch.  Would also be a lot more fun.





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