101 Ways of distributing python programs?

[David Eppstein]

In article <chl3cvgeku8qf4r3rv3oo17mn8f78h7ufo at 4ax.com>,
 Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> wrote:

> >I know that there are ways to produce windows and linux executables out of 
> >arbitrary 
> >Python programs. For Mac I am not sure at all.
> >
> >I want to distribute free and shareware programs written in Python.
> 
> Well, then, why don't you just distribute the source code?  That is by FAR
> the most useful option.

For Mac OS python programs that use a GUI, this is not a good option, 
unless you want to limit your program to people sophisticated enough to 
install one of the Python-with-GUI packages themselves.  The python that 
comes built in with recent versions of OS X does not include a GUI.   
Distributing standalone executables (as one can do e.g. with pyobjc) is 
a better way of making it easier for your users to get started.

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David Eppstein                      http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/
Univ. of California, Irvine, School of Information & Computer Science