[Pythonmac-SIG] Zope py2app, some progress

[Charles Hartman]

That's extremely helpful. I'd downloaded the setup script before and 
planned to study it -- now I'll go back to it. (Wish it did the py2app 
stuff, for self-pedagogical reasons -- but py2app does make things 
easier rather than harder.) And for me at least, the slide-show gives 
quite useful overviews of the cross-platform issues. Thank you.

Charles Hartman

On Feb 9, 2005, at 11:47 PM, Roger Binns wrote:

>> I'm not sure whether to ask if you could explain "compile them into 
>> the executable" (I don't know how to do that; I have to give my app 
>> to Windows people, but actually (*knowing* anything about Windows . . 
>> .) or if you could explain "(bleh)" -- but maybe the one question 
>> answers the other. Oh well . . .
>
> On Windows it is possible to make a single file executable and include
> all resources within that executable.  However most people expect there
> to be a single setup executable, and that setup will add the program 
> to the list of Add/Remove programs in the Control Panel.
>
> And if you are going to use to a single setup, there is no benefit to
> trying to make a single file - it doesn't matter how many files there
> are.
>
> There are also some resources you won't be able to make part of the
> single file such as help content as it needs them to be in seperate
> files.
>
> You can make a single app appear be in the native installer format
> for each platform.  We did it for BitPim.  Go ahead, download and
> try it.  You don't actually need a cell phone for the program to
> run.
>
> This is the Python code used to do the installer work:
>
> http://cvs.sf.net/viewcvs.py/bitpim/bitpim/makedist.py?view=markup
>
> Slides 18 through 22 of this talk explain how it is done.  Note
> however that we now use py2app on Mac.
>
> http://bitpim.org/papers/baypiggies/
>
> Roger
>
>
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