packaging and installing

[Godson Gera]

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:46 PM, Brian Blais <bblais at bryant.edu> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I was wondering if there is any standard or suggested way of installing
> packages *without* going to the commandline.  I often have students who,
> from there experience in Windows, have never looked at the commandline
> before and it is a bit of a challenge to get them to install something (i.e.
> go to the commandline, cd over to the proper folder, type python setup.py
> install, etc...).  I've never seen a package with something like a
> "compileme.bat", but was wondering if there is some suggested way of doing
> this or some reasons *not* to do this.  I can always write my own (1-line)
> .bat file, but I didn't want to reinvent the wheel.  Perhaps there is a
> better way for me to do this, ideally in a platform independent way.
>

You don't even have to write a bat file. Python's distutils package allows
you to build exe file which creates generic windows wizard window for
installing packages.

Take a look at distutils package
http://docs.python.org/distutils/builtdist.html

-- 
Thanks & Regards,
Godson Gera
Asterisk consultant India <http://godson.in>
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