comparing alternatives to py2exe

[Maxim Khitrov]

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 3:50 PM, iu2 <israelu at elbit.co.il> wrote:
> On Nov 3, 5:58 pm, Jonathan Hartley <tart... at tartley.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Recently I put together this incomplete comparison chart in an attempt
>> to choose between the different alternatives to py2exe:
>>
>> http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tZ42hjaRunvkObFq0bKxVdg&output...
>>
>> Columns represent methods of deploying to end-users such that they
>> don't have to worry about installing Python, packages or other
>> dependencies. 'Bundle' represents manually bundling an interpreter
>> with your app. 'Bootstrap' represents a fanciful idea of mine to
>> include an installer that downloads and installs an interpreter if
>> necessary. This sounds fiddly, since it would have to install side-by-
>> side with any existing interpreters of the wrong version, without
>> breaking anything. Has anyone done this?
>>
>> The remaining columns represent the projects out there I could find
>> which would do the bundling for me.
>>
>> Are there major things I'm missing or misunderstanding?
>>
>> Perhaps folks on the list would care to rate (+1/-1) rows that they
>> find important or unimportant, or suggest additional rows that would
>> be important to them. Maybe an updated and complete version of this
>> table would help people agree on what's important, and help the
>> various projects to improve faster.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>>   Jonathan
>
> Another thing that I think is of interest is whether the application
> support modifying the version and description of the exe (that is, on
> Windows, when you right-click on an application and choose
> 'properties' you view the version number and description of the
> application, it is a resource inside the exe). I think py2exe supports
> it.

py2exe supports this, cx_freeze doesn't.

- Max