Wheel-reinvention with Python

[Mike Meyer]

Cliff Wells <cliff at develix.com> writes:

> On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 00:59 -0400, Mike Meyer wrote:
>
>> I don't particularly like Tkinter, but it seems to me that it's pretty
>> much won. It seems to be installed on every desktop platform along
>> with Python. That means that if I want to distribute GUI apps, I'm
>> going to cause the least headache for my end users by writing them in
>> Tkinter.
>
> By this argument, we should just give up and use Visual* on Windows.

Not for me - my end users don't run Windows. Well, some of them may,
but for those, my distribution is even easier to use than the ones you
build with py2exe.

> The least headache for end users comes from properly packaging your
> application.  End users shouldn't need to worry about installing third
> party packages (or even Python for that matter).  Tools such as py2exe
> and Inno installer make this pretty simple on Windows, and py2app on
> OS/X accomplishes the same.  It should be irrelevant to end users what 
> libraries or tools you use to develop the app.

And what do I use to bundle my application for Unix? Most of the
things I build get installed on Unix servers.

       <mike
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