[wxPython-users] [ANN] Dabo 0.8.2 Released

[Christopher Barker]

Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> The GNUmed
> project as a provider of one Python application would be
> insane to start fiddling with what's installed in a client's
> site-packages

> for Joe Random Admin in a doctor's office somewhere
> out there in Stanton, Nebraska.

If you want to support Joe Random Admin -- you need to be providing the 
while shebang -- python and all -- as a single installer, in a way that 
doesn't clash with an existing python they may have.

For a single app, py2exe, py2app, etc is the way to do it. If you have a 
collection of apps, and want them to share the same runtime (python, 
wxPython, Dabo, etc), I don't think it's that hard to build a Python 
that lives in it's own home (i.e. C:\Program Files\Gnumed\python2.5, or 
/usr/local/gnummed/python2.5), and distribute that. (I haven't done it 
yet, though)

-CHB



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