Gordon McMillan's installer

[Benjamin Schollnick]

[Posted & Mailed as well]

I also want to throw a few of my 0.02c in as well...

I've been using Gordon's Installer for at least a year (I think closer 
to two), and have had very few problems with it.

There was a few cases where I had some TK issues, but Gordon was 
extremely helpful, and responded to my P.I.A (Pain in the Arse) 
questions quite rapidly and helpfully as well...

The only recurring issue I've seen is that it seems that every new 
release of Marc-André Lemburg's MXODBC package (now Egenix Pro package) 
breaks the import module logic.  It seems that Marc keeps changing his 
mind on how to make even cooler non-standard (?) import logic.
Funny enough, though, MXDateTime doesn't have this problem.

But since MXODBC has gone commercial, I can't use it, due to the 
licensing issue's....So this is a moot point anyway....

Back to the topic.... I highly commend Gordon on his installer package, 
useful documentation, and tech support.... Being able to make Windows 
based Executables without have to have a C compilier around has allowed 
me to use my Python code in a semi-hostile (to) python workplace...

               - Benjamin



In article <90B2C92BAgmcmhypernetcom at 199.171.54.194>,
 gmcm at hypernet.com (Gordon McMillan) wrote:

> [posted and mailed]
> 
> john.thai at dspfactory.com (John) wrote in
> <K7aR6.242725$Z2.2732520 at nnrp1.uunet.ca>: 
> 
> 
> >    I downloaded Gordon McMillan's installer for Python and after
> >    reading 
> >the docs, I still a bit confused about how to use it.. Does anyone have
> >any simple examples I can look at?  In particular I am trying to package
> >a script which uses wxPython as the front end and some C extension
> >modules internally.  I would like it packaged such that the interpretor
> >is hidden in the eventual exe file.  The package doesn't seem to come
> >with any examples.. 
> 
> By "packaged in the eventual exe file" I guess you mean a single exe (not a 
> directory tree). That means Freeze.py.
> 
> > python path/to/Freeze.py myscript.py 
> 
> is normally sufficient.
> 
> projects/test/Simple is examples of the 3 configurations. Run make.py and 
> it creates and then runs them. Their command line arguments are documented 
> at the top of builder.html. Most of the time, that's all you need to know.
> 
> - Gordon