In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, ajaksu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] While Linux and OS X both view Python as essentially a first-class > development platform-i.e., as something that shrink-wrap applications > can be built on-Windows does not. Instead, it's generally expected > that a Python-based Windows application be "frozen": bundled into a > self-contained package that includes a copy of the Python interpreter > and whatever libraries it uses, which are private to the particular > application. While this ensures that the application will function as > expected and not run into 'dependency hell', it also results in a > relatively large download-distributing a simple 'Hello World' program > is at least a megabyte in size, and makes extending the program's > functionality more difficult."
While it is true that OS X does provide a built-in Python that can be used as a shared component for shrink-wrap applications, it should be noted that py2app, the de facto standard tool for packaging Python apps on OS X, by default includes a private copy of the Python interpreter and library within the application bundle for similar reasons, i.e. avoiding "dependency hell". py2app does, however, go to some trouble to analyze dependencies and include only a minimal set of required packages. <http://svn.pythonmac.org/py2app/py2app/trunk/doc/index.html#id35> -- Ned Deily, [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
