Installer for Python software (Linux)

[Miki Tebeka]

Hello Wouter,

> At the moment I am developing a piece of software that is targeted at the
> office market, my ambition is in future to make it part of Gnome Office, or
> at least easily compatible with that project.
> 
> Now the software is developing pretty well, and it is time to start thinking
> of the installation.
> What I am looking for is an installation procedure like this:
> - user downloads program
> - user runs program, program asks for root password for general installation
> (if no root password: user installation)
> - program copies *.py to correct dir, and compiles the *.py to *.pyc.
> - user has to give some settings for the program to run properly
> 
> Now the major problems I see here are:
> - how to go to root mode? (and when asking the password: how to change the
> users keystrokes to *'s on the fly??)
> - how do I compile the *.py to *.pyc without running the program? (I guess
> this is trivial, and yes I am lazy so add this to the questions as well).
Have you looked at distutils? (http://www.python.org/doc/current/dist/dist.html)

HTH.
Miki