Creating Installer or Executable in Python

[Adam Pletcher]

I'd second InnoSetup for Windows installers, it's easy and powerful (and
free).  However, I don't think it can create actual .MSI files, only
.EXE installers.  I wish it would create .MSIs, since those are easier
to automatically deploy for large user groups.

I'm not aware of any free tools for building MSIs, but I'd love to find
one.

- Adam

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> Of sturlamolden
> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 9:54 AM
> To: python-list at python.org
> Subject: Re: Creating Installer or Executable in Python
> 
> On 14 Nov, 16:17, DanielJohnson <diffuse... at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for telling about py2exe.
> 
> Also note that you should build an MSI installer e.g. using InnoSetup
> after applying py2exe.
> 
> You could skip the py2exe part and only use InnoSetup to create an
> MSI. Most likely your client will not care if the executable file is
> called .py/.pyw/.pyc or .exe. Windows users are generally ignorant to
> the contents of the Program Files folder. They will not understand
> what is there and certainly not care what is there. Therefore, the
> only thing that really matters is to make it easy to install and run
> the program.
> 
> That is:
> 
> 1. Create an MSI that makes it easy to install the software (including
> runtime and dependencies).
> 
> 2. Use autorun if you ship a DVD or CD-ROM. The installer should start
> automatically when the disc is placed in the player.
> 
> 3. Make sure an icon on the "Start Menu" launches the program.
> 
> 
> If you have done that, 99.9% of all clients will be happy. The latter
> 0.01% is stupid enough to think it matters if the suffix of the
> executable is called .exe or not. Never mind these morons, just ship
> an .exe that does nothing except to spawn your Python program and
> exit.
> 
> 
> > Is there any utility that will help to make it as a .deb or .rpm
file
> > (for Linux)?
> 
> There is a tool called cx_Freeze which is similar to py2exe, except
> that it works on several platforms, including Linux. You will have to
> build the .deb or .rpm using other tools afterwards.
> 
> 
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