Re: [Py2exe-users] py2exe on linux ?

[Philippe F. <ph...@fr...>]

Thanks for that clear response. I think I'll go for PyInstaller for
packagining the data files as well.

	Philippe

Ralf Schmitt wrote:
> Philippe Fremy wrote:
>> 	Hi,
>>
>> Thanks for the different answers.
>>
>> I wonder why there is a need for different packaging tools like this.
>> Are there things that pyinstaller, bb_freeze and py2exe do differently,
>> better or worse ?
> 
> well, py2exe is windows only, it has support for com servers, nt 
> services and all the other windows stuff.
> pyinstaller works on windows and linux, it doesn't use the zipfile 
> import mechanism introduced with python 2.3, and so even works with 
> python 1.5. It also has support for packaging data files inside your 
> executable.
> cx_Freeze and bbfreeze also work on windows and linux, they both use the 
> zipfile import mechanism. Early versions of bbfreeze were based on 
> cx_Freeze (and some code from PyInstaller).
> cx_Freeze does not handle binary dependencies on linux. PyInstaller and 
> bbfreeze both do. As far as I know bbfreeze is the only one, which 
> handles eggs and zipfile imports transparently (and therefore also 
> provides a mechanism for including data files using setuptools 
> pkg_resources module).
> 
> Then there's also py2app which runs on OS X and provides all the fancy 
> mac stuff..
> 
> Regards,
> - Ralf
> 
> 
> 
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