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| 00:58 | <@himi> | Anyone here familiar with MSI and custom actions? |
| 00:59 | < Mahal> | Are you trying to package something? |
| 01:03 | <@himi> | I've got a Python app that I'd like to make a Windows installer for |
| 01:03 | <@himi> | The setuptools/distutils bdist_msi works nicely, except that I want to create start menu and desktop links for the installed app and there's no way to do that |
| 01:04 | <@himi> | There's /some/ support for running a post-install script, but I can't figure out how to get any information about the install actions into the script |
| 01:05 | <@himi> | It's currently run on both install and remove, and there's no environment variables I can see, no command line arguments, or anything like that |
| 01:05 | <@himi> | I could make the links in the script, but I'd want to remove them on uninstall and I can't see a way to do that |
| 01:06 | <@himi> | I was wondering if there's a way to make the MSI run a script /only/ on install and /only/ on uninstall, or how to get more information into the script, or even a way to make the MSI itself manage the links |
| 01:06 | <@himi> | . . . I have not the google-fu to find such information myself, because Microsoft documentation is like a maze of tiny little passages, all alike |
| 01:07 | <@himi> | I admit it's very extensive, but that pretty much means that it's a really /big/ maze of tiny little passages, all alike |
| 01:09 | < Mahal> | A brief google suggests that this kind of facility should be possible, but that 'most MSI creation packages' do it as part of the toolset |
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| 01:10 | < Mahal> | (that doesn't help you, I realise) |
| 01:11 | <@himi> | Well, in this case I'd be extending the existing setuptools/distutils toolset |
| 01:11 | <@himi> | I just couldn't for the life of me figure out /how/ |
| 01:12 | <@himi> | The very least would be figuring out how to get information about the install/uninstall actions being done, so that my basic post-install script could determine what to do |
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| 05:35 | < Mahal> | goddamn I love powershell |
| 05:40 | | * Vornicus replaces it with wisdomshell |
| 05:43 | | * Reiv proffers Vornicus a cheese. |
| 05:43 | <@Reiv> | Hey vorn ol' buddy |
| 05:43 | | * Mahal hands over an beef stew. |
| 05:43 | <@Reiv> | You keepin' it real? |
| 05:43 | < Mahal> | no seriously, powershell |
| 05:43 | < Mahal> | I can now in one line do the following |
| 05:44 | < Mahal> | import a csv file of users, license them for o365, assign voicemail policies in Skype for Business, migrate their email out to o365, and then run a report to ensure all the above worked properly. |
| 05:44 | < Mahal> | well, ok, it's a one-liner of "call script X and feed it variables Y" |
| 05:44 | < Mahal> | but still |
| 05:44 | | * McMartin fires up courageshell to complete the sequence |
| 05:45 | | * Mahal chuckles. |
| 05:46 | < Mahal> | I've probably re-invented the wheel at least once, but it's nice not *having* to do everything manually |
| 05:47 | | * Vornicus is actually keeping it virtual |
| 05:49 | <@Reiv> | I know that feeling well, Mahal. |
| 05:49 | < Mahal> | in the meantime I have learned many valuable skills about powershell |
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| 19:13 | | * jeroud has learned many valuable skills about implementing programming languages these last couple of weeks. |
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| 19:30 | < Jessikat`> | ...don't? :3 |
| 19:35 | <&jeroud> | It's much easier if you have an expert handy. |
| 20:11 | < Jessikat`> | :D |
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| 20:14 | <&jeroud> | Also, I'm only really playing in the easy bits. |
| 20:14 | < Jessikat`> | what kind of things you been doing? |
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| 20:17 | <&jeroud> | Implementing lists, making things throw app-level exceptions instead of blowing up the interpreter, adding string interpolation, that sort of thing. |
| 20:18 | <&jeroud> | Next on my list is more exception stuff and adding dicts. |
| 20:19 | <&jeroud> | Meanwhile the professionals are figuring out how to do module imports and type checking. |
| 20:19 | <&jeroud> | (It's a dynamic language with optional type annotations.) |
| 20:37 | | * Jessikat` nods :) |
| 20:37 | < Jessikat`> | those are in vogue |
| 20:40 | <~Vornicus> | but are they in Elle |
| 20:52 | < Jessikat`> | lel |
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