[SciPy-User] Roll your own python distributions

[Matthieu Brucher]

Hi David,

The latest Canopy version comes with a one-click/offline installer.

Cheers,

Matthieu

2013/9/12 David Baddeley <david_baddeley at yahoo.com.au>:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm wondering if anyone knows of an easy (or relatively easy) way of putting
> together a scientific python distribution with a one-click installer. I've
> got a python package with _lots_ of dependencies and would like to give
> users (with relatively limited computer skills) a simple way of installing
> python, my package, and all the dependencies. I have previously told people
> to download EPD, upgrade wxpython, and install a couple of additional
> packages (which is already pushing it in terms of what the users are
> comfortable with). The switch to canopy (with the accompanying move to a
> package management system in which one has to manually select which packages
> to install) makes this infeasible. The alternative distributions (PythonXY,
> Anaconda etc ...) are all either 32 bit only, or lack many of the packages I
> need, meaning that I'd need to get users to download a much longer list of
> additional packages. I want a python distribution, rather than just a
> py2exed version as parts of my code don't work well with py2exe.
>
> Has anyone encountered this situation, and what did you do?
>
> many thanks,
> David
>
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