You didn't say what platform, but if it is Windows take a look at Inno Installer. It is a complete installation framework that allows you to package everything into a single setup.exe file. I use a combination of py2exe and Inno to do my apps that are to be distributed. Nothing could be simpler.
-Larry Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I am sure that this question might have come up repeatedly. Companies > may not want to distribute their python code in source form. Even > though pyc files are one option, it gets inconvenient to distribute > bunch of them . If there is some way to bundle pyc files (akin to > .jar), it would be really nice. I understand that pyc files are not > hard to decompile (from my reading of previous posts) and module > startup times may be longer if they have to be read from an archive. > Neverthless, an option to distribute in the form of an archive is > attractive. Has this ever been considered for Python? If one were to > consider it, what would be pros and cons of such approach? > > Any comments are appreciated. > > Thanks, > Raghu. > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list