Windows: COM/VB packaging

[Hung Jung Lu]

Hi,

I am playing with Python Win32 COM features, now.

If I have Python as the COM server, VB (Visual Basic) as the client, it 
works great and it's fun. But what about installation and distribution, if I 
want my software to be used by others?

The thing is, the COM server needs to be registered to the particular 
machine, and this process is a bit manual. How can I automate that part? 
(generation of the Globally Unique Id: GUID... I suppose each machine would 
have a different GUID).

In general, if I have written something that uses COM to hook up Python to 
VB, how packageable will it be? It'll be nice if the end user only need to 
do a few clicks to get all of Python+Win32+VB installed. It'll be too ugly 
to ask them to install Python, Win32, and then the VB executable all 
separately. Any advices?

thanks,

Hung Jung

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