py2exe Excludes

[vincent wehren]

Ed Leafe wrote:
>     I'm trying to make a Windows runtime for Dabo, and I want to exclude 
> the framework code itself from the exe file, so that people can update 
> with new releases as they are made. The relevant section of setup.py has:
> 
> setup(
>         # The first three parameters are not required, if at least a
>         # 'version' is given, then a versioninfo resource is built from
>         # them and added to the executables.
>         version = "0.3.0",
>         description = "Dabo Runtime Engine",
>         name = "daborun",
>         # targets to build
>         console = ["daborun.py"],
>         #exclude the actual framework
>         options = { "py2exe": {"excludes" : ["dabo"]} },
>         )
> 
>     Yet the generated library.zip still contains all of the Dabo module 
> code. Why is this? What am I doing wrong?

Just a guess: What happens if you remove everything that's in the 
"build" directory before running setup.py? There may still be files 
around from an earlier build that *did* include the Dabo modules.

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Vincent Wehren



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