On Nov 30, 6:22 am, Alessio Pace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have to distribute a Python application which relies on an external > library, and I'm not very fluent in this kind of stuff with Python (I > come from the Java world where I would have used the Maven build tool > to create an "assembly with dependencies" of all it is needed to run > the app), so I was wondering if someone here could give me some > suggestions :-) > > The external library is generally not present on the machines where I > have to distribute my app, and the set of machines on which I have to > distribute this application is not known a priori (it is just known > they are Unix systems). In fact by means of SSH I will have to copy > (and install) the app+library and make it runnable onto the specified > destination(s). > > My question is: how would you do that? At the moment my current > solution is to make a tarball of the sources of my app + the > "distutils" archive of the external library, copy all into the target > machine, decompress and install via distutils(*) the external library, > setup some PYTHONPATH stuff on the destination machine, and finally be > able to launch the application. > > (*) specifying a prefix into the user home, as I'm not root there > > So in the end I was wondering if there is a more elegant way of doing > this because, as I said before, I'm not very experienced in these kind > of tasks in Python. > > Thanks in advance for any suggestion or comment. > > Alessio Pace.
I recommend GUI2Exe, a nice wrapper to py2exe, py2app, PyInstaller, cx_Freeze and bbFreeze: http://code.google.com/p/gui2exe/ I've only used the py2exe portion of the program, but it works great and the developers behind the project are very responsive and helpful. Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
