Distributing Python apps

[Bjorn Pettersen]

> From: Norman Skrzypinski [mailto:zypin at sympatico.ca] 
> 
> Hi, all.
> 
> I'm a retired mainframer.  I've designed several financial 
> software applications and I'm looking around for a suitable 
> language to use to code it.
> 
> I've spent the last couple of months investigating Visual 
> Basic, Visual C++, Euphoria, Python and Perl.  I like Python, 
> but I'm put off by the pain-in-the-rear methods of creating 
> standalone Python applications.  Isn't this a serious 
> shortcoming that should receive a lot of immediate attention? 
> Is there a developer-friendly builder-installer in the works?

It might be useful for us to know what you think the shortcomings are of
Distutils, py2exe, and Installer...

-- bjorn