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

[David LeBlanc]

In article <mailman.988243119.7307.python-list at python.org>, 
tim.one at home.com says...
> [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.
> 
> 
> 
If someone got the ball rolling on an install PEP, i'd be glad to 
contribute ideas and time. I'm just not sure exactly where to stat.

One notion would be that it be compatible with the new python "over the 
net" updater, and probably distutils too.

Dave LeBlanc