Standalone executables

[Rolander, Dan]

Yes, I also use Gordon's Installer with wxPython and it works fine. I see
this misconception posted all the time, and I suppose it's because Installer
has some built-in support for Tkinter, which isn't required for wxPython.

Although py2exe is easier to use, the last time I tried it it still didn't
support pyXML which I need, so I'll continue to use Installer.

Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: gmcm at hypernet.com [mailto:gmcm at hypernet.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 3:22 PM
To: python-list at python.org
Subject: Re: Standalone executables


[posted and mailed]

Don Tuttle wrote: 

>"Dave LeBlanc"
>> I found this on c.l.p.announce:
>> The Linux version of Installer for Python 2 is here:
>>  http://www.mcmillan-inc.com/installer_dnld.html
>
>Mark, judging from comments posted here,  your main issue of which
>installer/pseudo compiler to use will depend on you choice of GUI. 
>py2exe = wxPython.  Tkinter = Gordon's Installer.  So as tools stand
>now, the question is which is more important,  using wxPython, or
>distributing to both Windows & Linux. (Or maybe you could port py2exe to
>Linux for Thomas ;-)

I use my installer with wxPython all the time (I rarely use TK). 
It doesn't need any special support (well, there was a time when
what Robin was doing and what I was doing conflicted, but it
seems to be OK again now).

On Linux, the packager may have to take care of wxWindows on the
target machine (if it's not statically linked); it's only on Windows 
that the intaller will trace the (system) dependencies of extension 
modules.

- Gordon
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