At least for windows, code developed in Gentoo/Ubuntu/Python-2.5/ Qt/PyQt4 is very efficiently converted to self contained .exe's with pyinstaller and seems a little faster executing (smaller loading time) than py2exe. I prefer pyinstaller a little for the moment, as it seemed clearer and runs well. A simple howto with other quirks discussed and proper howto code that works out of the box (change to your program name, location...) is at
http://bytes.com/topic/python/insights/579554-simple-guide-using-pyinstaller which ran out of the box first time on a 2200 line Python QT application (it turned into a 9MB single compressed .exe) Not very technical, but this video shows the pyinstaller process quite clearly http://showmedo.com/videos/video?name=pythonHollandPyInstaller_german Don't know about OS X, but people seem to have success with py2app On Saturday 07 February 2009, Mark Voorhies wrote: > I am starting work on a Python/Qt4 based GUI and am looking for advice on > packaging the finished application for Windows XP and OS X. > > The details are: > * The development is being done on Linux (Ubuntu and Debian), so open > source packaging tools that run on Linux are preferred. > * I am using the GPL licensing option for Qt4 (entire application > distributed under the GPL). > * The current dependencies are Qt4 and some pure Python libraries. > * The target audience is non-programmer biologists, so the install > process should be on the order of "download this file and double-click to > install". > > My initial googling suggests py2exe for Windows and py2app for OS X, but I > am particularly interested in the quirks of using such tools to package > PyQt. > > Thank you for your time, > > Mark Voorhies > > _______________________________________________ > PyQt mailing list [email protected] > http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt _______________________________________________ PyQt mailing list [email protected] http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt
