*Newbie Question* --> Is it viable to distribute Python apps over the Internet?

[John J. Lee]

Jp Calderone <exarkun at intarweb.us> writes:

> On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 08:49:30PM +0000, Dennis Reinhardt wrote:
> >
> > On Windows, which is where Visual Basic runs after all,  a complete Python
> > hello world is 459 KB.   3-4 MB is *not* required.  See the online builder
> > for constructing Python hello-world class executables at
> > http://www.dair.com/autorun/arpyexe.cgi
[...]
> > The python DLL is bundled as are all required PY files in both of the
> > executables above.
> 
>   Is the app that generates these available (commercially or for free)?

Probably py2exe or McMillan Installer, I imagine.  Both know about
dependencies, so you don't end up with the whole Python distribution
in your .exe.


John