Bug 198021 – dev-lang/python should install Windows 32bit executables for "python setup bdist --format=wininst"

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2007-11-04 06:49:05 UTC]

dev-lang/python-2.5.1-r3 (/usr/lib64/python2.5/distutils/command/wininst-7.1.exe)
dev-lang/python-2.5.1-r3 (/usr/lib64/python2.5/distutils/command/wininst-6.exe)
/usr/lib64/python2.5/distutils/command/wininst-6.exe:   MS-DOS executable PE  for MS Windows (GUI) Intel 80386 32-bit
/usr/lib64/python2.5/distutils/command/wininst-7.1.exe: MS-DOS executable PE  for MS Windows (GUI) Intel 80386 32-bit

[Comment 1 Ali Polatel (RETIRED) 2007-11-04 08:17:39 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 198023 ***

[Comment 2 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2007-11-04 08:52:15 UTC]

dev-lang-python != dev-python/setuptools

[Comment 3 Ali Polatel (RETIRED) 2007-11-18 22:46:00 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> dev-lang-python != dev-python/setuptools
> 
Sorry about this again..
python-2.5.1-r4 and python-2.4.4-r7 fixes this.

[Comment 4 Michael Dubner 2008-03-05 18:35:52 UTC]

This is not a bug! They are required for building package installations!

[Comment 5 Michael Dubner 2008-03-05 18:39:49 UTC]

Lookup /usr/lib/python2.4/distutils/command/bdist_wininst.py for more info. These binaries included especially because not everyone can build them on non-windows system.

[Comment 6 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2008-03-06 18:56:50 UTC]

*** Bug 212490 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 7 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2008-03-07 04:20:44 UTC]

*** Bug 212490 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 8 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2008-03-07 04:58:03 UTC]

Oh. Python?

[Comment 9 Michael Dubner 2008-03-07 21:04:21 UTC]

So, to move discussion from now-duplicate bug:

These binaries needed for those of us, who want (under Linux) to package distribution for Windows (aka python setup bdist --format=wininst).
We don't want to discriminate those packagers/distributors.

For details lookup the python documentation:
http://docs.python.org/dist/postinstallation-script.html

Here is quotation from that docs:
> If you have a pure module distribution (only containing pure Python modules
> and packages), the resulting installer will be version independent and have
> a name like foo-1.0.win32.exe. These installers can even be created on Unix
> or Mac OS platforms.

[Comment 10 Michael Dubner 2008-03-26 18:07:33 UTC]

Summary should be "dev-lang/python-2.4.4-r9 and dev-lang/python-2.5.1-r5 doesn't installs wininst executables" to reflect what a _real_ bug is.

[Comment 11 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2008-04-01 15:31:23 UTC]

Yep, my bad idea got them removed. Summary changed.

[Comment 12 Markus Peloquin 2008-04-12 07:34:44 UTC]

How about a new USE flag?
-	rm Lib/distutils/command/wininst-*.exe
+	if ! use wininst; then
+		# remove microsoft windows executables
+		rm Lib/distutils/command/wininst-*.exe
+	fi

[Comment 13 Ali Polatel (RETIRED) 2008-04-18 14:29:24 UTC]

+*python-2.5.2 (18 Apr 2008)
+*python-2.4.4-r10 (18 Apr 2008)
+*python-2.3.6-r5 (18 Apr 2008)
+
+  18 Apr 2008; Ali Polatel <[e-mail]> +python-2.3.6-r5.ebuild,
+  +python-2.4.4-r10.ebuild, +python-2.5.2.ebuild:
+  Version bumps. Updated patchsets to fix buffer overflow in zlib extension
+  (CVE-2008-1721) bug 217221 and unsafe PyString_FromStringAndSize(). Added
+  patch by Mark Peloquin for distutils to respect CXXFLAGS, bug 145206. Add
+  wininst USE flag to conditionally install MS Windows executables, bug
+  198021. Use EAPI=1, rename nothreads and nocxx USE flags to threads and
+  cxx.
+

New versions have wininst USE flag to conditionally install these executables.
/me stabs drac. Thanks everyone :-)