Re: [cx-freeze-users] Building native Windows binaries

[Barry W. <ba...@py...>]

On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 12:23, Roger Binns wrote:

> For my apps, I use py2exe on Windows, cx-Freeze on Linux and py2app on
> Mac.  It isn't much effort doing so.  You will have to do platform
> specific stuff anyway - making a Windows setup.exe bears no resemblance
> to making an rpm for example.

FWIW, I'm not sure cx_Freeze or equivalent tools should be making
setup.exe or rpms.  In the interest of KISS, I think they should
concentrate solely on building a binary from a Python program.  Other
tools can then take their output and bundle them up into whatever
package distribution system they want.

I like that cx_Freeze takes the simpler approach.

-Barry