Arcane deployment considerations (was: Single-file executables)

[Cameron Laird]

In article <mailman.1794.1139778796.27775.python-list at python.org>,
Thomas Heller  <theller at python.net> wrote:
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>Usually the bundle=1 option in py2exe can create a single file exe, but it also
>allows to have a separate shared library.zip file, which is useful if
>you need more than
>one exe-file.  With python 2.4, MSVCR71.dll is still required and not
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For some of our projects, we provide a single executable, which
takes a command-line argument (or, rarely, environment variable)
to tell the executable whether to come up as server or client,
or GUI or command-line version, or ...  The result is that, even
for an architecturally-sophisticated development, the end-user
experiences a unitary delivery; he has just one file to install,
remove, archive, ...