crossplatform py2exe - would it be useful?

[Oren Tirosh]

On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 05:31:35PM +0200, Thomas Heller wrote:
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> Sounds much like the way py2exe already works now.  It locates the
> appended zip-file by searching the exefile from the end, then finds the
> beginning of the zipfile, and looks for a magic number there, which is
> used to verify that the next n bytes before this position is a C
> structure containing the required flags.
> 
> I don't like the idea to scan the executable for a magic signature
> without further hints where this should be.

I wasn't suggesting scanning the executable at runtime. When py2exe
reads the python executablein order to create a copy with an appended 
zip archive it might as well scan for a signature and modify the 
customization area that follows it. When this customized interpreter 
loads the customization values will already be in memory in the form of 
an initialized variable.

If the interpreter detects that the customization area has been modified 
it will interpret it as command-line arguments instead of argv. This 
enables complete control of things like compiler flags, optimization 
flag, ignoring environment, etc. A short "-c" string can be used for 
bootstrapping the appended zip. The call to PySys_SetArgv would use the 
real argv, if course.

    Oren