> 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
Valid comment although its not much more work to build a custom
installer that installs Python plus all the other libs. And checks that
they aren't already there first...
However due to the incompatibility issues around v3 I'm much less
anti-packages than I used to be. But I do think the reluctance to
install Python is not a valid reason, it's not much different to installing
a JVM for java.
> 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
Agreed, we need to package our apps so the user doesn't need to
do this. But that doesn't necessariily mean creating a packed exe.
But sadly that usually means using a third party installer, and the
best of those are all commercial so it costs $$$.
Alan G.
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