Gregor Horvath wrote: > Hi, > > My application is a client/server in a LAN. I want to keep my programs > .py files on a central File Server serving all clients. The clients > should load those over the LAN every time they start the program since I > expect that they are rapidly changing and I dont want to update each > client seperatly.
Don't forget you can screw up running clients if you override old version with a new one. > On the clients there should only be python and the necessary libraries > and third party modules (sqlobject etc.) installed. I believe it's better to keep *everything* on the file server. Suppose your OS is windows and suppose you want to keep everything in s:/tools. The actions are: 1. Copy python with all 3rd party modules from c:/python24 to s:/tools/python24-win32 2. Grab exemaker from http://effbot.org/zone/exemaker.htm, copy exemaker.exe to s:/tools/win32/client.exe 3. Create little dispatcher s:/tools/win32/client.py: #!s:/tools/python24-win32/python.exe import sys sys.path[0] = "s:/tools/client-1.0.0" import client 4. Create your first version of s:/tools/client-1.0.0/client.py: print "I'm a client version 1.0.0" ----------------------------- That's it. Now s:/tools/win32/client.exe is ready to go. I guess it's obvious how to release version 1.0.1 If you need to support other architectures or operating systems you just need to create tiny dispatchers in directories s:/tools/linux, s:/tools/macosx ... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
