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Tue Oct 20 16:18:50 CEST 2009 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-October/093101.html

[following up on distutils-sig]

Michael Foord wrote:
> Many Windows users would be quite happy if the standard mechanism for 
> installing non-source distributions on Windows was via the wininst 
> binaries.

...and many users may not be ;-) I know I'd be extremely unhappy if that 
were the case as I routines use multiple versions of packages with 
multiple versions of python on one machine...

> I wonder if it is going to be possible to make this compatible with the 
> upcoming distutils package management 'stuff' (querying for installed 
> packages, uninstallation etc) since installation/uninstallation goes 
> through the Windows system package management feature.  I guess it would 
> be eminently possible but require some reasonably high level Windows-fu 
> to do.

I wouldn't have a problem if integrating with the windows package 
manager was an optional extra, but I think it's one of many types of 
package management that need to be worried about, so might be easier to 
get the others working and let anyone who wants anything beyond a 
pure-python packaging system that works across platforms, regardless of 
whether binary extensions are needed, do the work themselves...

Chris

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[Python-Dev] Distutils and Distribute roadmap (and some words on Virtualenv, Pip)