Windows distribution suggestions?

Paul Rubin http
Tue May 17 06:56:31 EDT 2005


Toby Dickenson <tdickenson at devmail.geminidataloggers.co.uk> writes:
> py2exe is working great for me too. 

I should give it a try.

> One tip: make sure your three top-level scripts are as empty as
> possible: just import some other module and call a function. All
> your active code is then in some library.zip shared between the
> three, and you need never change alice.exe, bob.exe, and carol.exe

I think I understand what you're saying and it sounds like a very
good idea.  Thanks.

> > use NSIS for the installer, it can do anything you want an  
> > it's free. it couldn't be more simple, shoot me an email if you
> > need more 
> 
> Ive not used NSIS, but I have had good results from the free WiX
> tools, at http://sourceforge.net/projects/wix/. Documentation is
> poor, but examples are plenty.

I'll look at these and at INNO (mentioned in another post).  Thanks
again to everyone.



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