Norm Petterson wrote: | Hi all, | | Back in November, Cory Dodt mentioned on this list that a preliminary | version of tap2ntsvc was available to try out. Has anybody managed to | get it to work with py2exe 0.5.0? | | Using a tap file that works fine when run with twistd (Twisted 1.2.0), | and using Python 2.3.3 and py2exe 0.5.0 on Windows 2000, py2exe generates: | | error: error in setup.cfg: command 'py2exe' has no such option 'service' | | If I'm not overlooking something obvious, I will look into it further | with the samples supplied with this version of py2exe. Comments | appreciated ;-)

Cory Dodt <corydodt@twistedmatrix.com> writes:

To my knowledge nobody has tested it on 0.5.0 so I can only assume this is an API change. If so, it's not a well-documented one because the py2exe home page still talks about the service option as if it exists. I will have to investigate further. In the meantime could you open a tracker issue and assign it to moonfallen? Thanks.

BTW, 0.4.x is known to work.

It's still possible to build services, and I won't argue that the changes are well documented ;-). In py2exe 0.5, you specify that you want to build a service by giving a named argument 'service' to the setup() function. Before, 'service' was a command line option (that could also be stored in the setup.cfg file). For py2exe 0.5, there is quite some user-provided documentation in the wiki http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/moin.cgi/Py2Exe, and extensive samples are included in the distribution. IIRC, the advanced sample contains a service. Thomas