New submission from Mario Vilas :
I tried the following:
setup(
data_files = [(sys.prefix_exec, os.path.join('Win32', 'BeaEngine.dll'))]
# (... rest of the setup call here...)
)
This works perfectly when running the "python setup.py install". But when
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New submission from Mario Vilas :
When creating an MSI installer on Python 2.7 (Windows, both in 32 and 64 bits)
the data_files argument of the setup function is completely ignored. This
results in broken installations.
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assignee: eric.araujo
components: Distutils
messages: 157799
Mario Vilas added the comment:
My proposed patch is to change line 506 of bdist_msi.py from this:
version = sys.version[:3]+" "
to this:
version = self.target_version[:3]+" "
which is what I did to wor
New submission from Mario Vilas :
I just hit this silly bug in distutils, should be quite easy to fix.
When building MSI installers for a target_version other than the current
Python version, the target directory selection dialog shows a wrong message.
For example, here is a screen capture of
