eliben wrote:
Hello,
I'm getting into Python now after years of Perl, and as part of my
research I must understand how to do some common tasks I need.
I have a bunch of Windows PCs at work to which I want to distribute an
application I've developed on my PC. All these PCs have Python 2.5
installed.
If my application contains only code I've developed, I simply zip its
directory with .py files and send it to everyone, who can then use it
by running the entry-point .py file. However, what if I've installed
some 3rd party modules on my PC, and my application uses them (for
example pyparsing, PiYAML and some others) ? I don't want to manually
install all these packages (there may be dozens of them) on all those
PCs (there may be dozens of those too). What is the best method I can
use ? Naturally, I want all the non-standard packages my app uses to
be detected automatically and collected into some kind of convenient
distributable that is easy to pass around and run.
I'm aware of py2exe - tried it and it works fine. But it creates huge
executables, and I don't want to distribute those all the time. I much
prefer a zipped directory of .py scripts that takes some 10s of KBs.
What do you call "huge"?
In my environment the end-users don't have Python installed on their own
PCs, but the team does have a networked shared drive; we put py2exe'd
applications there. Less complaints about app load time than for things
like Word/Excel/Outlook, and no complaints from me about distribution,
and no worries about users running old versions.
Cheers,
John
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