Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: windows installer

[Karsten Hilbert]

> I'm not sure why Hilmar mentioned "install python at the very 
> beginning".  Why is gnumed even concerned with installing python?  The 
> gnumed install should not work if python is not installed/detected.
I certainly agree with this assessment.

> I agree NSIS is good.  But I think most of the work should be done by 
> distutils and NSIS should just call "python setup.py" or whatever.  I'm 
> not an expert on this BTW.
ACK. However, "GnuMed" is not a "Python program". It is an
application package consisting of - among other things -
Python scripts. python setup.py isn't suitable.

> >One final suggestion: don't use environment variables such as PYTHONPATH to 
> >tell gnumed where
> >to find modules. 
> I don't get this.  All modules (like wxPython) should be in 
> site-packages, so any python program should find them fine.
ACK.

Karsten
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