Python Webstart ?

John Fabiani jfabiani at yolo.com
Fri Sep 17 14:04:06 EDT 2004


Jorge Godoy wrote:

> huy <nytimes at swiftdsl.com.au> writes:
> 
>> Well not really. I don't mind doing one installation of a
>> (Python/Java) webstart. However, it's the automatic update of the
>> actual application software which I find most useful. The alternative
>> using p2exe or pyfreeze will require me to distribute the (potentially
>> large) binaries manually. For hundreds of terminals, this is not gonna
>> be good, especially in an iterative environment.
> 
> A network drive is not an option?  I use that with several software.  I
> just update one copy and everybody has an updated copy of the software
> the next time they run it.

Of course the problem with using a network drive is the size of the file
that is download everytime the program is run.  

John 




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