On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 2:37 AM Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 2019-01-09, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
>
> > .py files work on any platform that supports Python: Windows, Linux,
> > MacOs, ...
>
> Only after python has been installed along with any other required
> libraries.
>
> > How many platforms support .exe files that were compiled for Windows?
>
> None.
>
> But when your requirement is to support Windows users who are not
> capable of installing Python, WxWindows, and a half-dozen other
> libraries, you can't simply hand out .py files, push your fingers into
> your ears, close your eyes, and start yelling "your problem now, not
> mine, na, na, na, na, na, ...."
This is true - but on the flip side, it's a bit unfair to say "blah
blah Python sucks because py2exe is hard". That's not Python's fault.
You have an additional requirement ("support people who can't install
Python"), and that's going to have extra hassles. LOTS of them, in
this case.
ChrisA
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