[pywin32-bugs] [ pywin32-Feature Requests-3324407 ] Silent Install

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Feature Requests item #3324407, was opened at 2011-06-22 18:07
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Category: None
Group: None
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Wont Fix
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: JordanRinke (jordanrinke)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Silent Install

Initial Comment:
It would be nice to be able to silently install from the compiled EXE for PyWin. Unless there is a way to install it from source without requiring full blown VS2008 that I haven't been able to find?

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Comment By: Mark Hammond (mhammond)
Date: 2011-06-22 22:01

Message:
This is often requested, but unfortunately is not supported by the
'bdist_wininst' command in distutils which is used to create the installer.

A work around is to extract and copy the files manually, then run the
command "python pywin32_postinstall.py -install" after the files are in
place.

The files can be extracted either by installing the executable into a
clean Python install and copying the files manually, or opening the .exe as
a ZIP file and extracting directly from there - some tools may require you
to rename the ..exe to .zip before this will work (but the .exe is a valid
zip file)

Closing as "wont fix" as the fix needs to be in Python itself (ie, in
distutils) rather than pywin32.

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