Re: [xsrcg-devel] Checking in...

[Adam B. <co...@di...>]

On Nov 23, 2004, at 5:09 PM, Max Noel wrote:

>
> On Nov 23, 2004, at 22:42, Adam Brown wrote:
>
>> About the only issue with python I can think of off-hand would be the 
>> need to require a python interpreter be installed on the system. That 
>> might be a bit cumbersome, a little VisualBasic-esque. But, I 
>> certainly don't have a problem using Python. In fact, it might make 
>> for a very easy cross-platform choice for a back-end.
>
> 	The default Mac OS X "distribution" includes Python 2.3 (that's OS X 
> 10.3 -- I'm not sure about earlier versions, and I suppose OS X 10.4 
> will include Python 2.4), and the language is installed on most Linux 
> machines.
> 	As for Windows, it is possible to bundle a Python program and 
> interpreter in an EXE file, using a program called py2exe (which is 
> what's used for the Windows version of Bittorrent).


Well, I was mostly thinking of Windows, so that's pretty cool it can be 
bundled into an exe, should make it completely invisible.

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Adam Brown
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