Re: Building RBTools 0.7.6 into a single-file exe for Windows

2016-09-23 Thread Daniel Kuecker
YES! Thats a wonderful idea (the single shared install)! Thanks for the idea! I think it will work for us! --Daniel On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 8:26 AM, Christian Hammond wrote: > Sorry, I don't have any pointers here. Tools like py2exe drastically > changes the way

Re: Building RBTools 0.7.6 into a single-file exe for Windows

2016-09-23 Thread Daniel Kuecker
Hey Christian, Our clients would rather not install an app on their development machines. We have been using an older version of RBTools, that we made a custom post-review for, and built an exe. The exe is dropped on the client machine (among many other things) as a tool via a scripted setup

Re: Building RBTools 0.7.6 into a single-file exe for Windows

2016-09-23 Thread Christian Hammond
Sorry, I don't have any pointers here. Tools like py2exe drastically changes the way Python projects execute, which can end up causing a large number of tricky to diagnose issues. Having done a lot of py2exe/pyinstaller work in the past, it's not a route I'd want to go again. While I'd accept

Re: Building RBTools 0.7.6 into a single-file exe for Windows

2016-09-23 Thread Daniel Kuecker
Any pointers? On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 10:54 PM, john levin wrote: > I did.. and i was successful.. > > On Sep 23, 2016 12:30 AM, "Daniel Kuecker" wrote: > >> Has anyone been successful building RBTools 0.7.6 into a single-file exe >> for distribution

Re: Building RBTools 0.7.6 into a single-file exe for Windows

2016-09-22 Thread Christian Hammond
Out of curiosity, why not use the RBTools installer we already provide? The single .exe route will have limitations. I've done a lot of py2exe/pyinstaller work in the past for other projects, and it's not a route I'd recommend if you can avoid it, at least for more complex projects. Christian

Re: Building RBTools 0.7.6 into a single-file exe for Windows

2016-09-22 Thread john levin
I did.. and i was successful.. On Sep 23, 2016 12:30 AM, "Daniel Kuecker" wrote: > Has anyone been successful building RBTools 0.7.6 into a single-file exe > for distribution on windows? > > I'm trying to wrap rbt post functionality into an exe file and both py2exe > and