[Distutils] Re: Add multiple frozen modules

[Christian Tismer]

Gordon McMillan wrote:
> 
> James C. Ahlstrom asks:
> 
> > Gordon McMillan wrote:
> > > On Windows, this means you can have a complete Python installation
> > > (independent of any other Python installation) in a single directory:

...

> > But the normal PYTHON/Registry stuff is used to find
> > site.py, no?  Is there any guarantee that the correct
> > site.py and exceptions.py will be found?  The myPython/
> > directory may not be on the path.
> 
> Not if you deliberately
> SET PYTHONPATH=.
> which cuts the registry out entirely.

This is what I use for standalone apps. We just drop the whole
tree into the application. site.py lives in the Python directory,
as a special version. This suffices, since then no other path
than "." is needed to boot.

> For my installer / standalone, I deliberately muck with the
> environment before loading python and executing the "main" script.

And that's the only annoyance: You need to take care of
environment space, which is unfortunately not big enough
very often. I think a special python.exe for this purpose
would be handy, which just ignores all registry, sets
the path to the executable's directory, and done.

ciao - chris   (who really hates to muck with anyone's registry)

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