[Tutor] distutils questions

Magnus Lyckå magnus@thinkware.se
Sun May 4 07:39:02 2003


At 17:54 2003-05-03 -0700, Neil Hodge wrote:
>* Is distutils even the "best" (or even a reasonable) way to distribute
>free-standing applications (as opposed to modules that are specifically
>meant to be imported into scripts)?

I think you need context to answer this question.

What OS? More than one?

What kind of users? Do they in general use Python? Do
you expect Python to be installed already on the machine?
Do you plan to use an already existing Python install, or
would you prefer to make a separate (more or less complete)
python install for your program if they already have python
on the box?

Is this to be installed by a system operator or by an end user?

Do you want a binary thinge like you can get with py2exe
or the McMillan installer?



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