[Distutils] Using Scripts\foo.exe on a python which doesn't have Distribute installed?

[Matt Wilkie]

slapped reply too early, sorry.

> Alternatively, you can bundle a copy of pkg_resources.py,

I managed to get this to work by adding it as a script in setup.py:

    #smelly hack, allows foo.exe to run on machines w/out Distribute
    scripts = [
        'setup/pkg_resources.py',
        ],

this puts it in "PythonXX\Scripts" on the target machine, as I'm sure you know.

What happens if the target machine already has Distribute or
Setuptools installed, and thus has pkg_resources somewhere under
"PythonXX\Lib\site-packages", and likely a different version to boot?

I tried putting it in the same tree as our stuff,
"foo/external/pkg_resources.py", but that's not found. I'm assuming
because it thinks it's name is "foo.external.pkg_resources".

-matt


On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 12:46 AM, Matt Wilkie <maphew at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks PJ.
>
> I haven't used py2exe as I don't want to redistribute python also,
> just our program. I'll dig into your other suggestions and see where I
> end up.
>
> -matt