Hi, On Feb 7, 11:07 am, Andrea Gavana <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Duane, > > On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 2:44 PM, DuaneKaufman wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I have been using GUI2EXE (PyInstaller backend) quite a bit as of > > late, and noticed a few things: > > > 1) I forget the wording of the flags, but one can choose to clean up > > build directory, and clean up dist directory. When I chose to clean up > > the dist directory, GUI2EXE deleted my Python source files (I build > > into the same directory as the source) Is this the way it is supposed > > to be? > > Not really: usually it is good practice to build the executable in a > "dist" directory which does not contain your source files, as this > keeps things separated. In my opinion, py2exe does a very good job in > putting the executable in a different folder by default. In any case, > cleaning the "dist" directory in GUI2Exe does exactly this: it deletes > the entire "dist" directory. > For both 2) and 3) below, I figured out my error, and it had nothing to do with GUI2EXE
For 1) however, I still find the behavior odd, when I select 'Delete "build" directory', I still end up with a folder called 'buildtmpvr07e-' in the root of my source files, in addition to a file called 'warntmpvr07e-.txt' These file never get deleted. Thanks, Duane > > 2) I ran into trouble trying to build in an icon bitmap. I do not > > remember the specific error, but can reproduce if you like. > > 3) I also ran into trouble inserting a binary file into the > > distribution. > > It would be nice to have an example of to reproduce the problems you ran into. > > Thank you for your comments. > > Andrea. > > "Imagination Is The Only Weapon In The War Against > Reality."http://xoomer.alice.it/infinity77/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PyInstaller" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/PyInstaller?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
