Re: [Py2exe-users] Build on XP, deploy on Vista

[Werner F. B. <wer...@fr...>]

Brian Zambrano wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I was curious whether anyone knows about issues with building on Windows 
> XP, and deploying that application on Vista.  I'm currently using py2exe 
> successfully on XP, but don't have easy access to a Vista machine.  I'd 
> rather know of any issues ahead of time before I try to install the 
> application for my customer.
> 
> Searching around, I didn't find any notes on this setup.  Does anyone 
> know if there are any gotchas I should be thinking about?
 From a Python/py2exe point of view I don't recall having had any 
problems doing this.  Now I dev on Vista and deploy to Vista, XP, 7 
(testing) and Win2K without any problems.

One thing to keep in mind when moving from XP to Vista and Win7 is the 
MS UAC stuff.  Very simplified, do not have anything writable in your 
program folder - check out the InnoSetup site (either FAQ or Knowledge 
base) for more details.

If you go with Python 2.6.2 (I don't think 2.6.0/1 worked) make sure 
that you use e.g. the latest wxPython version and you have to make sure 
that you deploy the MS runtime dll's correctly (either using the MS 
installer for it or install them locally to your app folder - see the 
wiki here: http://wiki.wxpython.org/Deployment

Werner