Account Options

  1. Sign in
The old Google Groups will be going away soon, but your browser is incompatible with the new version.
Google Groups Home
« Groups Home
Django developers
Home
+ new post
About this group
Join this group
Message from discussion Windows installer
The group you are posting to is a Usenet group. Messages posted to this group will make your email address visible to anyone on the Internet.
Your reply message has not been sent.
Your post was successful
 
From:
To:
Cc:
Followup To:
Add Cc | Add Followup-to | Edit Subject
Subject:
Validation:
For verification purposes please type the characters you see in the picture below or the numbers you hear by clicking the accessibility icon. Listen and type the numbers you hear
 
Eugene Lazutkin  
View profile  
 More options Jan 13 2007, 10:06 pm
From: Eugene Lazutkin <eugene.lazut...@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 21:06:46 -0600
Local: Sat, Jan 13 2007 10:06 pm
Subject: Re: Windows installer
Print | View thread | Show original | Report this message | Find messages by this author

Rob Hudson wrote:
> Jacob Kaplan-Moss wrote:
>> Good point.  Eugene sent me a windows installer a while ago, but I didn't have
>> a chance to test it out and then I lost track of it....

>> Let's table this until closer to the release, but if you want to talk to him
>> and anyone else and start lining things up for a windows installer, we'd love
>> to have one.

> I'm pretty comfortable with the Nullsoft Installer (NSIS: nsis.sf.net).
>  If Django decides to use that, I'd be happy to help.

NSIS is my favorite, and it was my first choice. Finally I decided to
use bdist_nsi (http://bdist-nsi.sourceforge.net/) because:

1) It uses NSIS to produce an installer.
2) It is based on distutil => it was super easy to create an installer
for existing Django 0.95 package.

The only non-standard thing I did was to replace bdist_nsi's default art
with Django-related one.

> Should we start a separate thread to answer questions like:

> * Should we use default Python or something like Portable Python?
> * Assume SQLite?
> * Install any add-ons (like Markdown or Textile)?

I was pondering these questions myself and decided against bundling ---
IMHO selecting all these packages is a way too intimate process to
automate. But I may be wrong.

Thanks,

Eugene


 
You must Sign in before you can post messages.
To post a message you must first join this group.
Please update your nickname on the subscription settings page before posting.
You do not have the permission required to post.
Create a group - Google Groups - Google Home - Terms of Service - Privacy Policy
©2013 Google