<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/21/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Thomas Heller</b> <<a href="mailto:theller@python.net">theller@python.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
"Schollnick, Benjamin" <<a href="mailto:Benjamin.Schollnick@xerox.com">Benjamin.Schollnick@xerox.com</a>> writes:<br><br>>> > It's okay.... I just miss McMillian's installer...<br>>> > It's unsupported, so I've moved to py2exe... But
<br>>> > McMillian's package seemed to be better with<br>>> > the dependency issues.... And offered a few<br>>> > features that don't exist in py2exe... (Or at least<br>>> > are not easily handled in py2exe...)
<br>>> ><br>>> > On the plus side, py2exe has handled packages lately<br>>> > that I just could not get McMillian's installer<br>>> > to work reliably with... Which is why I switched...
<br>>><br>>> I always wondered why no one picked up McMillan and continued<br>>> to develop or at least maintain it - it's open source after<br>>> all, isn't it?<br>><br>> Yes... It was...<br>
><br>> In my case, I never was motivated, and I suspect it's got<br>> quite complex code behind it...<br>><br>> Py2exe is a good replacement... I'm generally happy, there's<br>> only a few issues that I have not been able to solve.
<br>><br>> For example, making a plugin based, expandable, generic<br>> build.py.... If I do, the typlibs that I attempt to import<br>> die...<br>><br>> Plus right now, I have solved the LsaLookupNames2 issue, but
<br>> it appears that I need different typelibs between W2000 & WinXp.<br>> But here I am on a development XP system, and can't generate the<br>> ones for 2000.... (Yes this isn't py2exe's fault... But....)<br>
<br>(Should I change the subject, again, to py2exe ? ;-)<br><br>We recently had this issue with wmi, which also needs different typelibs<br>on XP and 2K, maybe you can look up the thread.<br>Since Tim was only using the typelib wrapper to access some constants,
<br>it was possible to avoid the typelib at all by using some code I posted<br>to find the constants at runtime.<br><br>The best solution, imo, would be to let the frozen exe create the<br>wrapper at runtime if it is not found in the exe - but this may require
<br>some nontrivial pywin32 hacking.<br><br>Thomas<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Python-win32 mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Python-win32@python.org">Python-win32@python.org</a><br><a href="http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32">
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32</a><br></blockquote></div><br>what ever happend to cx_freeze instead of McMillian's installer ?