[Pythoncard-users] Re: Python distribution problems

[normanwinn <nor...@on...>]

ka wrote:
> Secondly, once we have a viable 1.x release, I would like to have a 
> single installer option for Python, wxPython, and PythonCard on the 
> Windows platform

The very fact that you should need to contemplate this demonstrates the 
severity of the problem. I already have versions of Python that came 
with Zope, with Open Office, then I'll have another with PythonCard and 
another with Dabo. Where will this stop? Each time I want to upgrade I 
end up upgrading n versions of Python? This is folly.

What is the alternative? I can't have an answer as I am not at the 
interior of an open source effort. Perhaps a standard test suite for 
Python? Perhaps co-ordinated upgrade days? Perhaps sterner control over 
the standard Python library?

Then the exe tools. With py2exe I ended up with the tcl library in my 
'exe' package when compiling a command line tool! I don't know how many 
megabytes I had to distribute. I didn't bother. I then found exemaker:

http://effbot.org/downloads/index.cgi/exemaker-1.2-20041012.zip/README

but this, while being very handy on a system that has Python, is not a 
standalone exe so can't be distributed.

Please accept that I am not knocking (does that translate into 
American). I hope my observations can contribute to a process that will 
make Python tools available to all,

Norman Winn


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