[python-win32] Unpackaged binary version of pywin32

[Fuzzyman]

Paul Moore wrote:

>On 11/14/06, Ross McKerchar <it at crummock.com> wrote:
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>>Is there anywhere I can download a compiled but unpackaged version of
>>pywin32?
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>>I would like to repackage the win32 extensions as an msi using the the
>>bdist_msi distutils extension, allowing me to deploy the package to
>>multiple clients using group policy.
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>>The sourceforge project page only lists executable installers and the
>>source distribution (which isn't much use without MS Visual Studio).
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>>Feel free to shoot me down to earth if there's any reason why this
>>approach will never work - the bdist_msi extension does seem quite
>>"bleeding edge".
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>>Thanks for all your help!
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>The executable installer (bdist_wininst) format is basically a zip
>file with an executable header added, so you can unzip it using
>something like winzip. Having said that, the installer runs a
>postinstall script to do a lot of the setup actions - I don't know if
>bdist_msi handles postinstall scripts.
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If you have Visual Studio installed, you should be able to use distutils
to generate the msi in the usual way from the source archive.

It would be nice to be able to do the same thing using precompiled DLLs.
Anyone know if that is possible ?

Fuzzyman
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>Paul.
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