Different deployment considerations (was: Python & GUI?)

[Marco Seiriö]

Actually deployment is very important. But it might
be the part that is least fun to make work nicely....

In an academic world deployment often is of no concern, 
but in my world I have to be able to send out a CD with
a very easy installation procedure... 

A single binary package is preferable, my users should really
not have to care what language or run-time I use. It is 
an internal issue for me as a programmer. 


/M



Cameron Laird wrote:
> 
> In article <3A698869.198D6263 at crepido.com>,
> Marco =?iso-8859-1?Q?Seiri=F6?=  <marco at crepido.com> wrote:
> >Thank you VERY much for the help. I have now tested
> >some of your suggestions and I think I'll use Python
> >in my project. Not Perl as I thought of first....
> >
> >The Python community seems to be just super from what
> >I can read here....
>                         .
>                         .
>                         .
> The Python community is.
> 
> So is Perl's--but in a different way.
> 
> Scripting GUIs with Python is a far richer experience
> than with Perl, in general; I've studied and done both
> in some depth, and write this with confidence.  HOWEVER,
> one significant advantage of Perl/Tk (there's a second
> one, not apposite for this discussion) is its "deploy-
> ability".  There is more than one practical way to
> generate a single-file executable from a conventional
> Perl/Tk application.  What's the situation on the Python
> side?  Gordon's Installer makes Win* Tkinter apps into
> single files ...  I know of *no* other of the many Python
> GUI bindings which enjoys this benefit.
> 
> Does anyone have evidence to the contrary?
> 
> Assume the usual disclaimers:  I'm not claiming this
> deficiency, if true, is cause for alarm, hairy palms,
> starvation in the southern hemisphere, or so on.  I'm
> just out to get the facts.
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> 
> Cameron Laird <claird at NeoSoft.com>
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