Deploying on Windows servers : advice sought a module

[Rory Campbell-Lange]

On 08/03/11, Waldemar Osuch (waldemar.osuch at gmail.com) wrote:
> At my work place I still use py2exe but I do not rely on its automatic
> discovery and packaging.
> 
> The setup.py lists all the dependencies explicitly in "packages" and
> "includes" parameters.  These end up in library.zip.
> 
> Then the source file paths with the actual business logic are gathered
> with os.walk and passed in as data_files parameter.
> 
> Finally the actual service executable is generated from the very
> minimal script. This executable is registered only once and as long as
> you do not move it to a different directory Windows will find it and
> start it up for you.
> 
> The service script that gets used by py2exe is truly minimal.  It just
> changes working directory to where the executable sits, adds current
> directory to the sys.path and loads the main script.

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Hi Waldemar. Thanks for your advice. I'll have another play with py2exe.

Many thanks
Rory

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