[Pythonmac-SIG] simple setup.py-for-Windows question

Bob Ippolito bob at redivi.com
Fri Feb 4 08:40:48 CET 2005


On Feb 4, 2005, at 2:09, Roger Binns wrote:

> If anyone wants a reference, have a look at makedist.py in
> the BitPim source.  It produces a py2app application on Mac,
> a RPM via cx-Freeze on Linux and setup.exe via InnoSetup and
> py2exe on Windows.
>
> http://cvs.sf.net/viewcvs.py/bitpim/bitpim/makedist.py?view=markup
>
> Auxiliary files such as help, images etc are in the resources
> subdirectory (nothing to do with Mac resources or bundles).
>
> It would be nice if cx-Freeze, py2exe and py2app were all
> unified and it does seem like small steps are happening
> in that direction.

PJE and I are working on something called eggs 
<http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/PythonEggs>, which would 
certainly advance the state of application bundling, among other 
things.  py2app will probably be the first thing to use them.

-bob



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