Norman Hadfield wrote: > We currently use the standard Python and Pywin32 installers but to make our > win32 application,) which uses Python to execute dynamically generated > expressions including instantiating COM servers and hence the need to > pywin32), easier to install and support multiple versions side by side etc we > want to switch to using an embedded version installed in a sub-folder of our > application. > > This will allow simple xcopy deployment plus allow us to package our > application using project centennial as a Windows store App.
This is EXACTLY what tools like py2exe and cx_Freeze and pyinstaller do. You don't need to reinvent this wheel. > 1. I now want to trim the pywin32 files down to the minimum so presumably I > can just delete the pip*, pkg*, setuptools* folders and also the demo, test > sub-folders, help files etc - is that correct? py2exe (and the rest) do that. -- Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
