Re: [Visualpython-users] History and Status?

[Bruce S. <bas...@un...>]

Thanks! Definitely cool.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Arthur" <ajs...@op...>


> 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