At least in my case it was about simplicity. If it was a simple matter of using a base python program, that would be one thing, but the last program i distributed here at work used pygtk as it's GUI (which at the time required four different packages, I believe they have consolidated this down to one, thank god), a month / date arithmetic module a few other modules I can't remember off the top of my head.
It doesn't make sense to say, go here, install this, ok, now drop this in this folder, ok now drop this in that folder, ok now open your command prompt and type this string of words. But don't typo while your at it. It took all of five minutes to learn how to use CX enough so I could freeze something and send it around to people here to use. It would have taken 30 minutes to explain how to install each component to people who just want stuff to work. On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Alan Gauld <alan.ga...@btinternet.com>wrote: > > "Mike Silverson" <msilvers...@gmail.com> wrote > > installed on the target computer. I am trying to send a program to a >> friend >> using windows and he does not have python installed, and does not want to >> take the time to install it. >> > > Given how quickly Python installs compared to many other apps I > can only assume he uses Wordpad as his word processor?! Honestly > you could just build an installer that installed Python and your files > and I doubt he'd notice the install time as being excessive! > > However, there is no way to run Python without installing an interpreter. > If you don't use a standalone install you need to build the interpreter > into an exe and then install a separate python installation for every app > he uses. Its mad. Does he refuse to install .Net or Java or the > VisualBasic runtime? > > But if he must there are several options available, the best known > is py2exe but there are others out there. > > -- > Alan Gauld > Author of the Learn to Program web site > http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor >
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