Distributing applications

[Serge Orlov]

Jaime Wyant wrote:

> This becomes especially hairy when someone is updating from 1.0 to
> say 1.5.  Then I have to keep track of all the deltas between
> 1.0/1.5. My way is much simpler because I don't have to keep up with
> *anything*. As long as I test my code against my custom built
> distribution, it ought to JUST WORK.
>
> I don't trust myself to keep up with anything ;).

Now I follow you :) I agree that updating py2exe apps requires package
management utilities. I don't think they will be messy, it's just
more code to maintain compared to your way. You only need to track
one delta (1.0 -> 1.1 ... -> latest) and publish two files latest.exe
and update.zip

  Serge.