Jason R. Coombs <jar...@jaraco.com> added the comment: Based on the MSDN article and what I read in a blog entry (http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths/archive/2005/10/24/windows-installer-on-64-bit-platforms.aspx), I thought that the enclosed patch might work around the issue... and while it does set the template property to x64, the undesirable behavior persists.
Index: Lib/msilib/__init__.py =================================================================== --- Lib/msilib/__init__.py (revision 73295) +++ Lib/msilib/__init__.py (working copy) @@ -3,8 +3,11 @@ # Licensed to PSF under a Contributor Agreement. from _msi import * import os, string, re +import sys -Win64=0 +Intel64=0 +AMD64 = 'AMD64' in sys.version +Win64 = Intel64 or AMD64 # Partially taken from Wine datasizemask= 0x00ff @@ -145,8 +148,10 @@ si.SetProperty(PID_TITLE, "Installation Database") si.SetProperty(PID_SUBJECT, ProductName) si.SetProperty(PID_AUTHOR, Manufacturer) - if Win64: + if Intel64: si.SetProperty(PID_TEMPLATE, "Intel64;1033") + elif AMD64: + si.SetProperty(PID_TEMPLATE, "x64;1033") else: si.SetProperty(PID_TEMPLATE, "Intel;1033") si.SetProperty(PID_REVNUMBER, gen_uuid()) ---------- components: +Windows _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6258> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com