Fwd: RE: [python-win32] win32all and non-standard Python distribution

[Robert Olson]

this is a mechanism that might be useful for the windows ag installs .. 
package up the whole python dir and install what we want.

>From: "Pavlos Christoforou" <pavlos at gaaros.com>
>To: "'Itamar S.-T.'" <itamarst at yahoo.com>, <python-win32 at python.org>
>Subject: RE: [python-win32] win32all and non-standard Python distribution
>Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 19:02:34 +0100
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>This is the procedure we follow to keep the python distro we ship with
>our application completely independent from any installed python on the
>target machine.
>
>1. make a copy of the python22.dll and open it as a resource in MSVC.
>One of the resource strings is "2.2" which defines the subpath in the
>registry where this specific python dll will look for various settings.
>Modify this string to some other value, say "2.2_IST".
>
>2. Lets suppose that your applications root directory is {app} and that
>you have unzipped the python distro in {app}\Python22\. The following
>registry entries will do the trick.
>
>Root: HKLM; Subkey: "SOFTWARE\Python\PythonCore\2.2_IST\PythonPath";
>ValueType: string; ValueName: ""; ValueData:
>"{app}\ExternalModules\Python22\Lib;{app}\ExternalModules\Python22\Lib\s
>ite-packages;{app}\ExternalModules\Python22\DLLs"
>
>Root: HKLM; Subkey:
>"SOFTWARE\Python\PythonCore\2.2_IST\PythonPath\win32com"; ValueType:
>string; ValueName: ""; ValueData:
>"{app}\ExternalModules\Python22\Lib\site-packages\win32com"
>
>
>Root: HKLM; Subkey:
>"SOFTWARE\Python\PythonCore\2.2_IST\PythonPath\win32"; ValueType:
>string; ValueName: ""; ValueData:
>"{app}\ExternalModules\Python22\Lib\site-packages\win32;{app}\ExternalMo
>dules\Python22\Lib\site-packages\win32\lib"
>
>Root: HKLM; Subkey: "SOFTWARE\Python\PythonCore\2.2_IST\InstallPath";
>ValueType: string; ValueName: ""; ValueData: "{app}\Python22" ; Flags:
>uninsdeletekey
>
>
>Pavlos Christoforou
> > Anyone solved this issue before? Obvious solutions
> > would be sys.path fixups in all applications I run,
> > messing with directory structure before ZIPing, adding
> > some sort of site.py post-install, and getting Mark
> > Hammond to change how win32all installs itself (can we
> > get .h and .lib files installed too?) :)
> >
>
>
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