[osgeo4w-dev] Python GIS programming environment under Windows

[Howard Butler]

On Dec 15, 2010, at 11:27 AM, Matt Wilkie wrote:
> From http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ticket/114 there's a python script to (de)register a python directory tree in the windows registry. It doesn't work on 64 bit systems (patches welcome). After using register-python.py you should be able to use the standard windows installers for any python application not included in Osgeo4w.

Making that an advanced installable OSGeo4W package might not be such a bad idea.  This is a common problem.