Creating self-contained apps

Larry Bates lbates at swamisoft.com
Tue May 18 18:03:18 EDT 2004


I do this with py2exe for Windows.  I also use InnoSetup to
create self installation .EXE file for Windows distribution.
Seems to work quite well.

HTH,
Larry Bates
Syscon, Inc.

"Ed Leafe" <ed at leafe.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.58.1084908123.6949.python-list at python.org...
> Is it possible to create a version of Python, along with several
> specific modules, and somehow package it together to be distributed as
> a single unit? I remember that Zope did something similar in the past,
> but can't recall how that was accomplished. I looked into bdist in
> DistUtils, but couldn't find enough info on it to determine if it would
> do what I want.
>
> I have an app that requires a specific version of Python, along with
> specific versions of various modules. What I need is a single file that
> I can distribute that will run my packaged version of python, assuring
> that the user, no matter what Linux distro they are using, will be able
> to run it? And while I'm at it, is this also possible in Windows?
>
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