crossplatform standalone python apps

[Philip Semanchuk]

On Oct 17, 2008, at 2:59 AM, Gabriel Rossetti wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I like to create a cross-platform standalone python application,  
> like Mac OS *.app dirs. The idea is to distribute a zip file  
> containing everything (the python interpreter and all) so that a  
> user just unzips it and runs it. Has anyone ever done anything like  
> that? I searched google but didn't find anything really, and  
> currently, even in my dev env, I have to set the PYTHONPATH  
> manually, and for a standalone app I couldn't do that for example.

Hi Gabriel,
For details on how OS X .app dirs work, plug this into Google:

"os x" application bundle


But as Martin said, that's specific to OS X and won't port to other  
operating systems.