[Python-Dev] Batteries Included?

[James C. Ahlstrom]

Jack Jansen wrote:

> And maybe the answer is a much simpler freezing process, like
> MacPython BuildApplication where any Python user can drop a script on
> it and end up with a fully self-contained app guaranteed (well.... No
> reports to the contrary have been heard so far, at least:-) to contain
> everything needed and not interfere with an existing MacPython
> installation (or be interfered with by it). Then a popular app will
> have prebuilt binaries available for all platforms quickly, made by
> the Python community, and the enduser interested in the app but not in
> Python can simply download that.

IMHO the "much simpler freezing process" is archive files.  A simple
script can build them, imputil can import them, and the only
remaining problem is to find them.  Please see:

ftp://ftp.interet.com/pub/bootmodule.html
ftp://ftp.interet.com/pub/pylib.html

JimA