[Distutils] bdist_wininst: post-installation changes?

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Steven Knight wrote:
> 
> I don't think this is supported, but I just want to make sure...
> 
> Is there any way, in the generated Win32 installer, to have it perform
> some arbitrary post-installation editing?

Yes. Thomas Heller has checked in an update of the installer
which supports this. You have to get it from CVS, though.
 
> To cover Win9x systems, I'd like to install a .bat file in C:\PythonXX\
> using the Bruce Eckel preamble from the Python FAQ:
> 
>     @echo off
>     rem = """
>     rem run python on this bat file. Needs the full path where
>     rem you keep your python files. The -x causes python to skip
>     rem the first line of the file:
>     python -x c:\aaa\Python\\"%0".bat %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
>     goto endofpython
>     rem """
> 
>     # The python program goes here:
> 
> The problem is that the "%0" expansion needs the full path name to where
> the .bat file is installed (C:\PythonXX\), and that's not known until
> the installer runs and consults the registry to find out where Python is
> located.
> 
> Is there anything I can have the installer do to accomodate this?  A
> quick glance at the code didn't turn up anything (but it *was* very
> quick... :-).

No idea, I guess you'll have to look just a bit closer ;-)

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