Distributing a Python app

Andreas Jung andreas at andreas-jung.com
Thu Jul 19 17:24:35 EDT 2001


The standard way to distribute Python modules or applications
is *usually* with DistUtils (see Python documentation for
further informations). DistUtils supports to build and install
a Python package and allows you to build archives for distribution
like .tar.gz or rpms.

Andreas




----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay Parlar" <jparlar at home.com>
To: <python-list at python.org>
Sent: Donnerstag, 19. Juli 2001 14:56
Subject: Distributing a Python app


> I'm just wondering if anyone has any suggestions as to the best way to
distribute an application written in Python, intended for
> people who don't have Python installed on their machines? Even possibly a
commercial distrubtion program, if it's the best. I've
> been playing around with py2exe, with not much success (although that's a
topic for a different day). Assuming I do get py2exe
> working properly, how would everyone suggest we distribute our
application? (By the way, this application is for Windows
> machines).
>
> Jay Parlar
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