hey,
nice detective work.
You could monkey patch the bdist_msi class in distutils.
You save the old class to a variable somewhere, then derive a class
from that. Then place your new class where the old distutils one is.
There are some examples of doing this in the distutils_mods.py file
that you can copy from.
cheers,
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 5:38 AM, Brian Fisher <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 6:32 PM, Brian Fisher <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
... I'd go ahead and make a patch, but I don't know how to figure out the
name of the installer that's created in Setup.py... anybody know how to get
that from the bdist command or something?
...So for getting the name of the installer that's created when building an
msi installer - the "bdist_msi" class that does the msi work and is derived
from a "distutils.core.Command" class has a "get_installer_filename"
function - so if I could somehow get at the instance of that class that was
used to make the msi, I could get the filename and write a patch to change
the REINSTALLMODE of the built msi and and fix the installer problem in this
thread...
So anybody know how to get at that thing? (or otherwise find the name of the
built installer) from setup.py? (I'd appreciate help, cause looking at
distutils makes my head hurt, and I'm lazy)