[Jython-users] distribution of Jython-based apps, jythonc, etc.

[William D. <wdd...@ma...>]

Hi,

I've been working on a project that I want to distribute as open source and,
now that I am about to the alpha stage, I am trying to determine how to do
that. I am sure that there is ample guidance at the Sun and Python/Jython
websites about the legal aspects, but I am a bit stymied at the technical
ones. The source (right now) is all Jython; my long-range plan is to port
most of the code to Java and just leave the highest-level stuff in Jython
and use Jython for a macro/scripting language for the app.

I have done most of the development on a Windoze 2000 laptop (I work on this
while I am commuting to work on a train) but, though I want the final
product to be as platform-independent as possible, my main user base will be
Mac users.

My first guess at the easiest way to distribute this code was to use jythonc
to build a single jar that would hold all the Jython classes. That way the
users would only have to install a jre and Swing. However, I have not had
any success in getting jythonc (I get a very long list of compiler errors)
to complete this task and the documentation for it seems to be useful more
as a reference for experienced users than a tutorial for new ones. It would
be helpful to me if someone would post a detailed how-to for the complete
task of using jythonc to prepare a jar suitable for distribution to users
that will not have Jython installed.

If I don't use jythonc, what other ways do you all find to work well? Can I
take the .class files built by Jython and use another tool (like
ClassWrangler on the Mac) to build a jar that I could distribute with
jython.jar?

Thanks!
Bill