comparing alternatives to py2exe
Philip Semanchuk
philip at semanchuk.com
Fri Nov 6 15:00:17 EST 2009
On Nov 3, 2009, at 10:58 AM, Jonathan Hartley wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Recently I put together this incomplete comparison chart in an attempt
> to choose between the different alternatives to py2exe:
>
> http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tZ42hjaRunvkObFq0bKxVdg&output=html
Hi Jonathan,
I'm asking similar questions for the app suite that we're developing
on my current project, so I thank you for doing my work for me. ;)
I was interested in py2exe because we'd like to provide a one
download, one click install experience for our Windows users. I think
a lot of people are interested in py2exe for the same reason. Well,
one thing that I came across in my travels was the fact that distutils
can create MSIs. Like py2exe, MSIs provide a one download, one click
install experience under Windows and therefore might be a replacement
for py2exe.
For me, the following command was sufficient to create an msi,
although it only worked under Windows (not under Linux or OS X):
python setup.py bdist_msi
The resulting MSI worked just fine in my extensive testing (read: I
tried it on one machine).
It seems, then, that creating an MSI is even within the reach of
someone like me who spends very little time in Windows-land, so it
might be worth a column on your chart alongside rpm/deb.
Thanks again for your work
Philip
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