Different deployment considerations (was: Python & GUI?)

[Benji York]

In article <Vcoa6.155292$15.33860760 at news1.rdc1.az.home.com>,
  "Tim Hochberg" <tim.hochberg at ieee.org> wrote:
>
> "Alex Martelli" <aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:94cm0r01b6j at news2.newsguy.com...
>
> > I haven't checked, but, why wouldn't Installer (or other
> > such solutions) work equivalently for, say, wxPython?
>
> It does. (There are a couple of tricks one needs to know, but those
are
> readily answered on the wxPython list).
>
> -tim

I recently finished a spiffy little Windows wxPython app for our local
country club and was trying to figure out how I was going to distribute
it.  I could have installed Python, wxWindows, and my code on their
machine and been done with it, but I decided to learn how to do
it "right."

I figured out how to get Gordon McMillan's "Installer"
(http://www.mcmillan-inc.com/) to package up all the files my app
needed (including the wx files).  I then downloaded Inno Setup
(http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.htm) and learned how to build a setup
program.

The results are a single executable setup program.  Just double click
and it launches a profesional looking setup program.  Inno Setup let me
put icons on the Start menu and desktop and automatically created an
uninstaller that integrates with the standard Windows add/remove
programs functionality.

I was very impressed, you will be too.

Benji York
york at ficom dot net


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