Re: [Visualpython-users] History and Status?

[Arthur <ajs...@op...>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Sherwood" <bas...@un...>
To: "Arthur" <ajs...@op...>
Cc: "vpusers" <vis...@li...>
Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 11:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Visualpython-users] History and Status?


> Arthur, I just started to look at your materials and I have some naive
> questions:
>
> I gather that this setup.py is for use on Windows only if one has the
Visual
> C compiler?


The thing to understand is that distutils has a duel role.  From the point
of view of the developer/distributor it is a tool to build distributions.
From the point of the of the enduser it *can* be used - when necessary - to
install distributions.

In terms of the Windows .exe it is purely a distributors tool.   As long as
the distributor has the tools to build -  I use VC6 - the cvisual.pyd (or
.dll) then the distutils with (the correct setup.py) is a tool to build a
VPython.exe that will install on any Windows machine - quite elegantly,
IMO - with a double click.  The command to build the executable is
"python setup.py bdist_wininst".  A Windows executable is thereby created
and placed in the "dist" directory of the build tree.  that executable is
distributable and will work for any normal Windows machine - with no need
for that machine to have a compiler.

Hope that is clear.

Try it.

Its cool.

Art