[portland] Providing Application to Windows Users

[Jason Champion]

I second Miguel's suggestion. It's been a few years since I've used it, but
py2exe saved a LOT of heartache and support trouble when deploying to
Windows. I recall having a very hard time with getting some remote users to
set their Python path, and having an executable bypasses that.

If you want to go one step further, InnoSetup is a good tool for creating a
simple installer so they can just install the app like they would any other
program and have all of their shortcuts in place.
http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Miguel Grinberg <miguelgrinberg50 at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Rich,
>
> The following packages convert a Python script into a Windows executable,
> including Python itself and all the script’s dependencies:
>
> http://www.py2exe.org/ <http://www.py2exe.org/>
> https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/wiki <
> https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/wiki>
>
> Can’t comment on how these compare as I haven’t used them myself.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> Miguel
>
>
> > On Jan 12, 2015, at 8:58 AM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >  The Python/wxPython apps I've written have been for my own use, or use
> by
> > other linux users. Now I'm developing an application that will be used by
> > those using various Microsoft Windows flavors. I know nothing about
> Windows
> > since the last time I used it was in 1996. The intended audience is also
> not
> > computer literate.
> >
> >  I know that folks who want to use the tool need to install Python on
> their
> > machines. Do they also need to install all the subsystems (such as
> wxPython)
> > that are included in the main .py file?
> >
> >  It will be a while before the application is ready for testing on
> Windows
> > but since this is brand-new territory for me I'd like to get an idea of
> what
> > I'm facing in distributing it.
> >
> > Rich
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