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

[Magnus Lie Hetland]

In article <Xns91D71B945C087cliechtigmxnet at 62.2.16.82>, Chris Liechti wrote:
>mlh at vier.idi.ntnu.no (Magnus Lie Hetland) wrote in 
>news:slrna9fkli.9ti.mlh at vier.idi.ntnu.no:
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>as i understand py2exe it does exactly that. it adds a new target 
>"py2exe" so that disutils have a new target name.
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>i.e "python setup.py py2exe" generates the exe+dlls in the dist dir

Yes, I realise that, but...

  1. It only works on Windows; working on all platforms (as when
     compiling extensions with distutils) would be desirable;

  2. It's not a part of distutils (in the standard distribution).

My hope was that perhaps one day it would be possible (with a standard
Python installation) to create executables directly...

>-- 
>Chris <cliechti at gmx.net>
>

- Magnus (who also is a bit baffled as to why distutils doesn't
  include an "uninstall" command, such as the one implemented by
  Thomas Heller.)

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