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

[Chris Liechti]

mlh at vier.idi.ntnu.no (Magnus Lie Hetland) wrote in 
news:slrna9fkli.9ti.mlh at vier.idi.ntnu.no:

> 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? E.g. adding 
> some command (xdist, for executable, as opposed to the existing 
> bdist?)...

as i understand py2exe it does exactly that. it adds a new target 
"py2exe" so that disutils have a new target name.

i.e "python setup.py py2exe" generates the exe+dlls in the dist dir

-- 
Chris <cliechti at gmx.net>