Re: [Visualpython-users] vpython installer

[Bruce S. <ba...@an...>]

--On Friday, February 02, 2001 5:54 PM +0100 Markus Gritsch 
<gr...@iu...> wrote:

> But I think there must be a way to generate some easy to use graphical
> installers. Recently I installed PyOpenGL
> (http://pyopengl.sourceforge.net/) and py2exe
> (http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/py2exe/) and both installers
> claim, "Build with distutils-1.0.1". The Registry is searched, and if
> multiple Python installations are found, one can select the desired one.
> All with an easy to use GUI.

Thanks for the note, Markus. My negative comment about distutils was based 
on the standard installer for the Numeric module, and I'm happy to learn 
that it doesn't have to be like that.

I have been the one producing installation packages, and this spring I am 
utterly consumed rewriting a physics textbook for publication this summer. 
So I can't learn yet another set of tools at this time. If someone in the 
VPython community can learn enough about distutils to create something 
which I could then just modify slightly and maintain, I'd be happy to use 
distutils, since it sounds like it could provide more flexibility than I 
have with Inno Setup.

Presumably it would still be the case that one would have to install Python 
first? That a distutil-based installer is a Python program?

Bruce