simplest install procedure for Python + packages under winXP ?

Laurent Pointal laurent.pointal at limsi.fr
Thu Apr 26 05:41:11 EDT 2007


stef a écrit :
> hello,
> 
> I'm still in the transition of going from MatLab to Scipy,
> and installed previous week a SciPy on a PC twice,
> through the new "Enstaller".
> It's a pitty that there will be no old installer versions anymore
> (although I can understand why).
> 
> Although I succeeded, the behavior of the Enstaller was different both 
> times, and you can  clearly see  it's an alpha version.
> (I already wrote my experiences with the first install,
> the second install had the weird phenomena that none of the succesful 
> installed packages was detected).
> 
> As a spoiled windows user, which by the way are most people in my 
> surrounding, I'm used to a "one-button-install",
> so I wonder if it's possible to make a much simpler install procedure.
> 
> I don't know anything about what's required for a good install,
> what kind of things things should be stored in the windows registry,
> but as Python is an interpretor,
> I would expect there should be a very easy procedure:
> - Install it on one machine,
> - copy the complete subdirectory to another computer
> Does this work for Python + Scipy ?
> (If so, I can use Inno, which I'm familiar with)

Maybe take a look at:
http://www.portablepython.com/
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/movpy/

Dont know for scipy.



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