[Distutils] bdist_winist post-install script fails on non-admin
Python
David Handy
david at handysoftware.com
Wed Apr 14 15:06:18 EDT 2004
As I promised at the distutils Birds-Of-a-Feather session at Pycon, I
filed a defect on sourceforge with the title above, #935091
FYI for those of you who (like me) produce a Python install package using
the distutils bdist_winst command, and you rely on a post-install script
to create shortcuts, etc. -
If the user installed Python using the non-admin option, i.e. on the 3rd
screen of the Python 2.3.3 install program, "Select Components", the user
clicked the Advanced Options button and then "Non-Admin install"...
then afterwards every time that user installs a package created with
bdist_wininst, the post-install script will not be run.
How rare of a problem is this? I don't know, but in certain situations
i.e. on Windows XP the user installing Python may not have admin
privileges on that machine and may be required to do a non-admin install.
I detailed the cause and a solution in the defect report. Doesn't look
terribly hard to fix.
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