I would recommend py2exe. That does a nice job dealing with packaging
everything up, and you can take that exe file and its associated other files
and wrap a conventional Windows-style installer around it.
paul
On Dec 18, 2010, at 5:16 PM, Ian wrote:
> Hi all,
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> Question 1/
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> I am writing a large and complex app in Python 2.7 with PyQt4 for an
> exclusively windows environment. All users will be access the app from
> machines on the same LAN as the central database. In the early (pre-launch)
> days, I expect releases to be made frequently, as new features are added and
> the customer wishes to test them out.
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> What is a good way to release such code?
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> I was thinking of copying the .pyc files to a shared directory on the server,
> and having the start-up script check and update a local copy if any changes
> had been made since the last start-up.
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> Question 2. I am using the pywin32 extensions. This installed with no
> trouble on my development machine, but now I am creating the install
> instructions, for client machines, I find the "python setup.py install" step
> is failing with the error message
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> error: Unable to find vcvarsall.bat
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> I'm clearly missing something, but what? Google tells me that I am missing
> mingw, but I have not installed mingw (knowingly), I don't remember adding
> -c mingw32 to the command (not that that means much). I don't want to
> install mingw on every client machine unless I have to - there is plenty
> already.
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> Regards
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> Ian
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