Windows distribution suggestions?

[Timothy Smith]

Toby Dickenson wrote:

>On Tuesday 17 May 2005 09:35, Timothy Smith wrote:
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>>mate dont bugger around with all that. py2exe will make you a windows 
>>native exe to run. and for updates you just need to update it's 
>>library.zip.
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>py2exe is working great for me too. 
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>>>My app contains three different programs (say alice.py, bob.py, and
>>>carol.py) that need to be independently launchable, and a dozen or
>>>so other .py files that get imported into those first three
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>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
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>>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 
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>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.
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another good one is Inno, although it's not as easy to use as NSIS. Inno 
and NSIS can do anything a commercial installer can do, Inno especially.