Binary generation with distutils? (Freeze, py2exe, etc.)

[Martin v. Loewis]

mlh at vier.idi.ntnu.no (Magnus Lie Hetland) writes:

> I know there are several solutions available for building standalone
> binary executables from Python programs (Freeze, py2exe, McMillan
> Installer, etc.) -- I just wondered if it would be possible to add
> functionality like this to distutils?

That is certainly possible; freeze would be the obvious choice for
such a mechanism (IMO). Alas, distutils is unmaintained, so don't wait
for anybody else to implement it for you.

Regards,
Martin