Automated installation framework

[David Fraser]

Nikolai Kirsebom wrote:
> Does anyone know of an 'automated installation framework' written in
> Python / accessible from Python ?
> 
> Could it be an idea to use the unittest module as a framework for
> making such a system, using the 'setup-action' to make precondition
> testing, 'run' to do the actual installation and the 'teardown-action'
> to do verification.
> 
> Opinions are appreciated.
> 
> 
> In our case, the target system is (multi-machine) Windows.
> 
> 
> Nikolai
> 
It sounds like you are looking for the distutils included in Python.
Though they could use some enhancement :-)

David