On Dec 9, 2004, at 4:20 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 10:30, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
ISTR that for a long time, Visual Basic actually did the same thing. A few
magazines mentioned the fact, but nobody really cared. However, if this is
really a concern, bundle Pyrex as well. Both Pyrex and py2exe are
distutils-based, so at that point you have a complete solution, including
the "C" meme as well as the ".exe" meme.
As an aside, I wonder if there's interest in collaborating on freeze tools among the various existing solutions here. I've recently needed to look at this and I chose cx_Freeze, primarily because it supported the platforms I needed. It's a very good tool.
I've had some conversations with Anthony Tuininga on the cx_Freeze mailing list and there seems to be some interest in perhaps putting together a SIG or something.
That's certainly worth doing. Currently we have, in general use, at least cx_Freeze, py2exe, and py2app.
I have been abstracting away a lot of the dependency finding issues in py2app into a cross-platform module called modulegraph <http://svn.red-bean.com/bob/py2app/trunk/src/modulegraph/>. Modulegraph supercedes the standard library modulefinder. Because it uses a graph data structure, it gives you the flexibility say "pydoc doesn't *really* depend on Tkinter". It also has functionality that lets you specify implicit dependencies (via PyImport_.. or such), so that it plays nicely enough with C extensions.
This code is basically at the point where py2exe and cx_Freeze could import it and use it instead of modulefinder (with a small amount of hacking, the API is different).
-bob
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