Binary generation with distutils? (Freeze, py2exe, etc.)

[Thomas Heller]

"Martin v. Loewis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote in message news:m3pu1z91y6.fsf at mira.informatik.hu-berlin.de...
> mlh at vier.idi.ntnu.no (Magnus Lie Hetland) writes:
>
> > I know there are several solutions available for building standalone
> > binary executables from Python programs (Freeze, py2exe, McMillan
> > Installer, etc.) -- I just wondered if it would be possible to add
> > functionality like this to distutils?
>
> That is certainly possible; freeze would be the obvious choice for
> such a mechanism (IMO). Alas, distutils is unmaintained, so don't wait
> for anybody else to implement it for you.
>

I have never *seriously* tried freeze, maybe I gave up too
early. Also I have the impression that some people are actually
using freeze, but I never heard definitive words about it's status.

Problems with freeze, IMO, are that it requires a C-compiler,
which most people on windows do not have, also the resulting
files are much larger than those created by py2exe or installer,
because the byte codes are not compressed.


Thomas