Distributing Python Applications

[James Stroud]

Finger.Octopus at gmail.com wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> It has been such a painful thing for me. As I made a program to
> encrypt files, now I want to distribute that program over other
> computers. I created .EXE file with py2exe but the "dist" folder makes
> around 2 mb and it restricts for the python DLL to be within the same
> folder. Is there any easy way to get this thing done in just one exe
> file? I mean if I do interfacing with C/C++ will it work for me and if
> I do interfacing with C/C++ will it be necessary on the other computer
> to have python installed on it?
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance...
> 

No need for python to be installed. Don't worry about 2 MB downloads. 
Probably, if users are savvy enough to need encryption, they have the 
download speeds and hard drive space to handle 2 MB. Check out 
pyinstaller also, but what your really need is Innosetup. Its beautiful.

James