<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>I apologize if this question is misplaced, I wasn't sure which list to post it in.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm working on a distributed computing project (PyMW and BOINC) where we are sending Python scripts to client machines. Currently, we make two very unlikely assumptions: that Python 2.5 is installed and that the interpreter is available on the PATH.</div>
<div><br></div><div>We are looking at our options to remove this assumption and the two most likely are redistributing the entire Python installation (for each supported platform) and embedding the interpreter in a custom executable and sending select parts of the standard library with it (to reduce size).</div>
<div><br></div><div>It seems like we would have to pre-compile for each different platform, which is a pain and sending the entire installation could be tricky. </div><div><br></div><div>I am looking for alternatives, comments and suggestions. Any help would be greatly appreciated.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Jeremy</div></span>