[Q] Rolling your own binary distribution/installation of Python 2.0

[John Copella]

Hmmm.  I looked into the "Installer" utility you referred me to (and the FAQ
another gentleman mentioned) and these are close, but don't quite address
the problem.  I probably didn't explain this very well, but I don't have a
top-level script to "freeze" -- which is the precondition these tools seem
to require.  What I need to do instead is provide just the Python runtime
facilities (interpreter, modules, etc.) so that field engineers can develop
scripts on the customer's machine.  The ideal would be to just tar and zip
the contents of --prefix at some suitable location, but I suspect this
approach is too simple-minded.

I need to support HP-UX and AIX, fwiw.  Did I miss something?  Clearly this
is possible -- ActiveState has done it (unfortunately only for Windows,
Linux and Solaris), I'm just hoping it's not a lot of work.  Any additional
ideas short of digging into the Python installation scripts and rolling my
own?

John Copella

Alex Martelli <aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "John Copella" <jcopella at cfl.rr.com> wrote in message
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> > I am in the early phases of developing a product based on Python and
will
> > need to provide a binary distribution for customers who do not already
> have
> > Python installed.  Of course, the distribution should be installable
> > anywhere in the filesystem.  Is there any easy way (thinking here of an
> > existing utility or install script) to package my Python binaries so
that
> > they can be installed in an arbitrary location in the filesystem?  For
>
> A binary distribution will of course need to depend on the
> specific platform you're deploying on.  If it's Windows,
> see http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/py2exe/; if
> it's not (or, just to explore all possibilities, even if
> it IS:-), see the links at the end of the same page, most
> particularly Gordon McMillan's "installer".
>
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> Alex
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