Krys Wilken wrote:
> I've been mulling over the idea of an all-in-one
> Python+TG+SQLlite+PostgresSQL+Apache windows installer (a la Plone). It
> could contain a self-contained python with all the necessary
> site-packages to run TG and a directory structure for TG-based apps.
>
> At my work, our net connection is heavily
> firewalled/proxied/content-filtered and auto-downloading anything just
> does not work. I have to get TG in what amounts to basically a
> connectionless system.
>
> I am thinking that this kind of all-in-one setup.exe might be useful.
FYI, to create it, you can simply use easy_install with the -d option
to specify a target directory, and leave off the --script-dir bit,
adding --exclude-scripts and --always-copy so it won't generate scripts
and will copy all the needed eggs to your target directory. This will
dump all the eggs in a single directory for you, at which point you can
package them up along with ez_setup.py and the setuptools egg. As long
as the setuptools egg is in the same directory with ez_setup.py, the
resulting directory can be shipped anywhere for installation (assuming
the same platform, of course). On the destination system, replace the
TurboGears URL in the -f option with the name of the current directory,
e.g.:
ez_setup.py -f . --script-dir=wherever TurboGears
and then the install process will pull all its eggs from the current
directory.
Anyway, you can wrap all that in some kind of setup facility if you
want, I'm just giving you what will be the most robust process, because
it won't require you to hardcode anything about what scripts there are
or what eggs are needed. If Kevin changes anything, you'll pick that
up when you run easy_install to build the egg directory that will be
wrapped by your setup process.
