[python-win32] Re: remote copy wiht compress/decompress

[Mark Hammond]

> has to be registered once per computer and the register
> process fails if python
> is not installed on that machine. I have to install this
> service on a users
> computer without python. Normally I run Gordon McMillans
> Installer and ship the
> exe-file to the users computer. Is there a way to register
> the pythonservice
> without installing python, or run the service without
> register pythonservice ?

pythonservice.exe is like python.exe - it still relies on python23.dll and
the rest of the python library to actually work.  In the same way that you
can't install just python.exe on someones machine and have it run Python
scripts, you can't do it for pythonservice.exe

I'm not sure about installer, but py2exe does allow you to package
stand-alone services that don't require Python to be pre-installed.

Mark