My project, Python for AutoCAD of course requires a Python installation. The install is simple, as shown in this YouTube video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrQ7N2WulI4
I thought I might give the new install manager a shot, since is the last version with an MSI. It launches a terminal, basically unusable for my project. How can I have a easy one shot install for later versions?
I suppose I’ll have to roll my own python installer whenever 3.16 rolls around
Why does launching a terminal make it unusable?
I don’t know if it’s happened yet but the intention was that someone typing python into a terminal on a fresh Windows machine would offer to install it itself.
Most of the people that use my routine are novices when it comes to Python, don’t use a terminal at all, just want to load and run scripts within AutoCAD. I don’t want the redistribution of CAD-PyRx modules to be a hassle, having people throughout a company, wade through command line prompts to install
My wrappers are linked against a specific (major) version of Python, when I launched the manager, it asked something to the effect of “do you want to install the latest version of Python”, but it did not indicate what version it is. Honestly, I didn’t dig into it. I don’t use or like CLI.
Anyway, I felt the whole experience was not great from a novice user’s perspective
I can use the embedded package, but I also want people to access AutoCAD out of process with win32com. My plan is to release every two years, so maybe things will have evolved by 3.16.
Thinking, maybe I can wrap the manager in INNO Setup or something