shipping a python app

[Steve Holden]

"Roy Smith" <roy at panix.com> wrote in message
news:a9js5c$2m9$1 at panix2.panix.com...
> I've been given a task to write a small gui-based app which needs to
> run on both NT and Unix platforms.  About all I know about NT is how
> to spell it, and I've heard it's got some cool flight simulator games.
>
[how Tcl is currently used]
>
> So, that brings us around to what, exactly, would be involved in
> shipping a stand-alone python app?  All my python development so far
> has assumed that the run-time environment already exists, or can be
> installed by the user.  That will not be the case here.  We'll need to
> assume that nothing is there and package up whatever we'll need.  I'm
> sure people have done this before.  Anybody willing to share your
> experiences?
>
> Fortunately, for this particular app, there's no intellectual property
> being protected so we don't care if the source code is visible.

Gordon McMillan's installer package is almost certainly what you want.
Gordon's web page on

    http://www.mcmillan-inc.com/install1.html

also has an intelligent discussion of the alternatives.

regards
 Steve