Distutils - can user designate install directory for windows installer?

[Mark Hammond]

On 9/09/2009 1:57 AM, Timothy W. Grove wrote:
> I have successfully built a windows installer for my python program
> using distutils, (python setup.py bdist_wininst), but is there a way to
> do it that will allow a user ('user' == 'boss', in this case!) to
> designate the installation directory, rather than being forced to
> install into /Python/Lib/site-packages ? Thanks for any help.

bdist_wininst is for packaging python modules or packages and so depends 
on Python itself being installed.  As a result, it only installs into 
where Python libs and modules are generally installed.

It sounds like you are looking for something to create a stand-alone 
version of your program - in that case you are probably looking for 
py2exe to create the application itself, and something like Inno or NSYS 
to create an installer which allows the user to specify where they want 
it installed and doesn't depend on Python already being installed.

Cheers,

Mark