is py2exe still active ?

[Octavian Rasnita]

Hi Philip,

I thought that pypi works like cpan for Perl, but now I understand.

Thank you for clarifications.


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Octavian


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From: "Philip Semanchuk" <philip at semanchuk.com>
> 
> On Dec 8, 2010, at 5:09 AM, Octavian Rasnita wrote:
> 
>> Hi Steve,
>> 
>> I may put some stupid questions because I am very new to Python, but... I heard about pypi/pip. Aren't all these Python libraries (like cxFreeze) provided on a central archive where we can get them and also report the bugs using a single request/issue tracker?
> 
> Hi Octavian,
> I didn't see anyone reply to you on the list...
> 
> The short answer to your question is "no". PyPI stands for the Python Package Index. The key word there is "Index". It's a catalog of packages but many of those packages are hosted elsewhere. The places where those packages are hosted may or may not have an issue tracker, etc. 
> 
> For instance, one the packages that I offer through PyPI (posix_ipc) is hosted on my personal Web site. 
> 
> Hope this helps
> Philip
> 
> 
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Steve Holden" <steve at holdenweb.com>
>> Newsgroups: gmane.comp.python.general
>> To: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita at gmail.com>
>> Cc: <python-list at python.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 12:56 AM
>> Subject: Re: is py2exe still active ?
>> 
>> 
>>> Octavian:
>>> 
>>> It's great that you want to let people know about bugs. Put yourself in
>>> the position of the package maintainer, however. She or he doesn't spend
>>> all day working on cxFreeze, and probably doesn't even do a Google
>>> search on cxFreeze very often. So they are unlikely to find out about
>>> this problem form your well-intentioned note.
>>> 
>>> It's just possible nobody does care, as I can't find a link to an issue
>>> tracker - the best I could advise in this case would be to join the
>>> mailing list by visiting
>>> 
>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cx-freeze-users
>>> 
>>> regards
>>> Steve
>>> 
>>> On 12/7/2010 6:49 PM, Octavian Rasnita wrote:
>>>> This packager is also nice.
>>>> 
>>>> If someone cares, I've discovered a small bug in it.
>>>> If Python is installed on another drive than C under Windows, the cxfreeze.bat file still calls Python on the drive C and it doesn't work until it is corrected.
>>>> 
>>>> Octavian
>>>> 
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>>> From: "Cbast" <sebastien.frigon at gmail.com>
>>>> Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
>>>> To: <python-list at python.org>
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 5:00 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: is py2exe still active ?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Dec 7, 8:23 am, Anders Persson <anders.u.pers... at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Hi!
>>>>> When a look att py2exe homepage it is not looking like mutch happen,
>>>>> as a beginner i was thinking to start with Python 3, but i like to now
>>>>> if py2exe will be for 3 too.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Is any one have any info ?
>>>> 
>>>> I don't have the answer about py2exe, but I'm using cxFreeze to create
>>>> executables with Python 3.1, if it's what you're looking for.
>>>> 
>>>> http://cx-freeze.sourceforge.net/
>>> 
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