Creating Installer or Executable in Python

[Shawn O'Shea]

Adam Pletcher wrote:
> I'd second InnoSetup for Windows installers, it's easy and powerful (and
> free).  However, I don't think it can create actual .MSI files, only
> .EXE installers.  I wish it would create .MSIs, since those are easier
> to automatically deploy for large user groups.
> 
> I'm not aware of any free tools for building MSIs, but I'd love to find
> one.

I just learned about this one within the last week, wix
http://wix.sourceforge.net/

PHP.net uses it for their Windows installers.

-Shawn

> 
> - Adam
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: python-list-bounces+adam=volition-inc.com at python.org
>> [mailto:python-list-bounces+adam=volition-inc.com at python.org] On
> Behalf
>> Of sturlamolden
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 9:54 AM
>> To: python-list at python.org
>> Subject: Re: Creating Installer or Executable in Python
>>
>> On 14 Nov, 16:17, DanielJohnson <diffuse... at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for telling about py2exe.
>> Also note that you should build an MSI installer e.g. using InnoSetup
>> after applying py2exe.
>>
>> You could skip the py2exe part and only use InnoSetup to create an
>> MSI. Most likely your client will not care if the executable file is
>> called .py/.pyw/.pyc or .exe. Windows users are generally ignorant to
>> the contents of the Program Files folder. They will not understand
>> what is there and certainly not care what is there. Therefore, the
>> only thing that really matters is to make it easy to install and run
>> the program.
>>
>> That is:
>>
>> 1. Create an MSI that makes it easy to install the software (including
>> runtime and dependencies).
>>
>> 2. Use autorun if you ship a DVD or CD-ROM. The installer should start
>> automatically when the disc is placed in the player.
>>
>> 3. Make sure an icon on the "Start Menu" launches the program.
>>
>>
>> If you have done that, 99.9% of all clients will be happy. The latter
>> 0.01% is stupid enough to think it matters if the suffix of the
>> executable is called .exe or not. Never mind these morons, just ship
>> an .exe that does nothing except to spawn your Python program and
>> exit.
>>
>>
>>> Is there any utility that will help to make it as a .deb or .rpm
> file
>>> (for Linux)?
>> There is a tool called cx_Freeze which is similar to py2exe, except
>> that it works on several platforms, including Linux. You will have to
>> build the .deb or .rpm using other tools afterwards.
>>
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