Hi all,
I'd like to invite people to test out Pynsist, my new open source tool to
build Windows installers for Python applications.
For instance, this is all I had to write to make an installer for the
'Aliens' example included in pygame:
https://github.com/takluyver/pynsist/blob/master/examples/pygame/installer.cfg
Using a pygame installer downloaded from Christoph Gohlke's site, I can
even build the installer on Linux and have it work on Windows.
Pynsist never tries to make an exe of your application, unlike freeze tools
such as cx_Freeze and Pyinstaller. Instead, it installs your code along
with a copy of Python, and creates start menu shortcuts to launch your
Python code directly. This produces bigger installers (but not huge -
Aliens is 27MB), but it is less brittle. Freeze tools often have problems
with packages that don't expect to be frozen, or break when a new version
of Python comes out; Pynsist avoids these issues.
Pynsist supports Python 3.3+ and Python 2.7.
To install and use Pynsist, see the documenation:
http://pynsist.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
Thanks,
Thomas
