Perhaps you have heard about the East coast US hurricane. It really hammered us here in New Jersey. I had trouble getting home last night due to high water. When I went to our usual Japanese lunch restaurant it had broken windows and was full of tree branches. Wow... Anyway, Mark Hammond wrote:
No - the point is that the "1.5" key is "reserved" by a standard install. Changing the string value actually allows you to have your own subtree, and you can assume you own that.
OK, now that I know the rules I will think about doing that.
And I hate changing any registry entries at all.
Well, you should learn to get over it!
I will try. Of course, even if the registry helps ship Python apps on Windows, it is no help on Unix, and I care about that almost as much.
My current "solution" is to use freeze to create a black-box install, and worry about second Python installations and wasted storage when it happens.
well, IMO this is also the correct thing to do. any install that has
100 files is fragile. So I do both - freeze the app, _and_ a custom "sys.winver".
Yes, but this requires a compiler.
I was hoping that this thread whould result in a consensis of what to do, but it has not.
There is a consesus for people with the same problem. Different problems have different optimal solutions.
The problem is that there is no reliable way to ship bullet-proof Python apps without recompiling and rebuilding Python. Each of us has his own pet hack to solve our own problem. Now there is talk of custom import hooks, and this is likely to result in each package requiring its own import hook! Aren't packages supposed to be software IC's? I hate to be a nag, but I will keep pushing for a single solution. Python is totally cross platform, and with all that machinery, there must be portable way to do that. I think this is good for Python. Please don't think I am trying to solve my own selfish problems. I have a compiler, I am happy using freeze, and I don't have any problems. Its just that Python would "sell" better and be more popular if a developer could read the documentation "How to ship and install your Python app in five minutes and make millions". This documentation currently reads "You can't". Jim Ahlstrom