I will like to know what happens to dependencies like PyQt. Thanks.
On Sep 13, 2013 2:11 PM, "Thomas Kluyver" <tak...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 13 September 2013 04:23, Pietro Moras <studio...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Off-topic? It's HOT topic.
>> I envisioned to reach a similar result learning how to use directly
>> the cx_Freeze classes, methods & properties.
>>
> I'm glad you think so ;-)
>
>> Question> Do you deem this as a a wrong strategy?
>>
> What? The NSIS installer? cx_Freeze? I don't deem either right or wrong. I
> gave some advantages and disadvantages of the new approach, but I think
> it's an alternative worth exploring for distributing Python GUI
> applications on Windows.
>
>> Remark> Even at prototype level I presume that to “Check whether a
>> suitable version of Python is installed before extracting it”, which you've
>> suggested as a “Possible extension”, should be granted first.
>>
> The main reason I'm not worrying about this yet is that it extracts and
> runs the Python installer, but that does nothing if that version of Python
> is already installed. So in that case, the only advantage of checking
> before extracting it is to save a few seconds during installation.
>
> Secondly, there's a slightly difficult question about what is a 'suitable'
> version of Python. If the application is bundled with Python 3.2, say, and
> the system already has Python 3.3, should it try to run with 3.3, or
> install a copy of 3.2 alongside it? What about bugfix releases? Or should
> the developer encode in the installer the versions it should accept? As it
> happens, just running the Python installer achieves what I think is the
> best simple answer: treat each feature release of Python (e.g. 3.2, 3.3) as
> a separate runtime, and always keep the latest bugfix release within each
> version (e.g. 3.3.1 will be replaced by 3.3.2).
>
> Finally, as currently written, the start menu shortcut relies on the
> Python Windows launcher described in PEP 397, which is only included with
> Python 3.3. Once it's installed, the launcher works for any version of
> Python, but it does mean that my prototype installer relies on having
> Python 3.3 either bundled within it, or already on the system. The
> advantage of this is that the developer can use a shebang to indicate which
> version of Python to run the application with, without requiring any extra
> complexity in the installer.
>
> Thanks for your comments,
> Thomas
>
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