distutils and building an distribution that includes other packages

[Paul Hemans]

On May 20, 3:01 pm, Chris Rebert <c... at rebertia.com> wrote:
> > "Chris Rebert" <c... at rebertia.com> wrote in message
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> >> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Paul Hemans <dar... at nowhere.com> wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>> I am new to Python, and after a lot of sweat and tears, I have my first
> >>> app.
> >>> Now I need to deploy it to end-users. The application includes the use of
> >>> lxml and sqlAlchemy so I need those to install automatically as part of
> >>> the
> >>> installation process. I really don't want the users having to download
> >>> various modules and install them. Is this facility (to download and
> >>> install
> >>> other packages seamlessly) part of distutils? If so, I have been looking
> >>> around for a simple tutorial on the topic but haven't found anything yet.
> >>> Can anyone point me to some information?
>
> >> Since I'm guessing your platform is Windows, you'll probably be
> >> interested in py2exe -http://www.py2exe.org/
>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Chris
> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 9:31 PM, Paul Hemans <dar... at nowhere.com> wrote:
> > Hi Chris,
> > Yes I do intend to use py2exe for windows installation but I don't
> > understand how it will help me distribute lxml and sqlAlchemy as part of the
> > install, or am I missing something?
>
> Granted I haven't used Windows (and thus py2exe) in a while, but last
> I recall the executable it produced was a self-contained Python
> executable containing the main script and all its necessary
> modules/libraries. I think there were some issues getting it to
> include certain finnicky third-party libraries, but once tweaked
> properly it could be coaxed to include them.
>
> Thus, you don't need to install/distribute the libraries at all;
> they'll be included as part of the generated executable. Then to
> distribute/install your program, you just copy the executable (and
> maybe a DLL or two, again it's been a while).
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
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Ah, I was overcomplicating things (again).
Thanks