> "Chris Rebert" <c...@rebertia.com> wrote in message > news:mailman.426.1242792992.8015.python-l...@python.org... >> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Paul Hemans <dar...@nowhere.com> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> I am new to Python, and after a lot of sweat and tears, I have my first >>> app. >>> Now I need to deploy it to end-users. The application includes the use of >>> lxml and sqlAlchemy so I need those to install automatically as part of >>> the >>> installation process. I really don't want the users having to download >>> various modules and install them. Is this facility (to download and >>> install >>> other packages seamlessly) part of distutils? If so, I have been looking >>> around for a simple tutorial on the topic but haven't found anything yet. >>> Can anyone point me to some information? >> >> Since I'm guessing your platform is Windows, you'll probably be >> interested in py2exe - http://www.py2exe.org/ >> >> Cheers, >> Chris On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 9:31 PM, Paul Hemans <dar...@nowhere.com> wrote: > Hi Chris, > Yes I do intend to use py2exe for windows installation but I don't > understand how it will help me distribute lxml and sqlAlchemy as part of the > install, or am I missing something?
Granted I haven't used Windows (and thus py2exe) in a while, but last I recall the executable it produced was a self-contained Python executable containing the main script and all its necessary modules/libraries. I think there were some issues getting it to include certain finnicky third-party libraries, but once tweaked properly it could be coaxed to include them. Thus, you don't need to install/distribute the libraries at all; they'll be included as part of the generated executable. Then to distribute/install your program, you just copy the executable (and maybe a DLL or two, again it's been a while). Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
