Re: Distributing a Python program hell

2013-04-03 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-04-03, Neil Cerutti wrote: > On 2013-04-03, John Nagle wrote: > >> I'm struggling with radio hams who are trying to get my antique >> Teletype program running. I hate having to write instructions >> like this: >> >> [...] > > Python programs can be distributed as binary-like packages,

Re: Distributing a Python program hell

2013-04-03 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2013-04-03, John Nagle wrote: > I'm struggling with radio hams who are trying to get my antique > Teletype program running. I hate having to write instructions > like this: > > Installation instructions (Windows): > > Download and install Python 2.7 (32-bit) if not already installed. > (

Re: Distributing a Python program hell

2013-04-03 Thread Ian Kelly
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 1:41 PM, John Nagle wrote: > I'm struggling with radio hams who are trying to get my > antique Teletype program running. I hate having to write > instructions like this: > > Installation instructions (Windows): You should check out pyInstaller or py2exe or cx_Freeze. --

Distributing a Python program hell

2013-04-03 Thread John Nagle
I'm struggling with radio hams who are trying to get my antique Teletype program running. I hate having to write instructions like this: Installation instructions (Windows): Download and install Python 2.7 (32-bit) if not already installed. (Python 2.6 or 2.7 is required; "pyserial" will n