On Dec 13, 2010, at 12:30 PM, Godson Gera wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:46 PM, Brian Blais <bbl...@bryant.edu> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I was wondering if there is any standard or suggested way of installing >> packages *without* going to the commandline. I often have students who, >> from there experience in Windows, have never looked at the commandline >> before and it is a bit of a challenge to get them to install something (i.e. >> go to the commandline, cd over to the proper folder, type python setup.py >> install, etc...). I've never seen a package with something like a >> "compileme.bat", but was wondering if there is some suggested way of doing >> this or some reasons *not* to do this. I can always write my own (1-line) >> .bat file, but I didn't want to reinvent the wheel. Perhaps there is a >> better way for me to do this, ideally in a platform independent way. >> > You don't even have to write a bat file. Python's distutils package allows > you to build exe file which creates generic windows wizard window for > installing packages. > > Take a look at distutils package > http://docs.python.org/distutils/builtdist.html >
that's very interesting, and I didn't realize that. it may be useful, and solves part of my problem, but the other part is that I am not on a windows machine and have to distribute to windows users. Or perhaps I am on windows, and need to distribute to Mac. It's great that python itself is so cross-platform, but the installation process for packages seems a lot less so. thanks, bb -- Brian Blais bbl...@bryant.edu http://web.bryant.edu/~bblais http://bblais.blogspot.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list