On Jul 20, 5:39 am, Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm to the stage where I need to deploy the app I built with wxPython. > I've been able to successfully build it w/py2exe into a binary (about > 10MB size in total). > > What I'd like to do is create an automatic updater, so that I can have > users download updated versions of my *application code* without having > to have them redownload everything (the interpreter, etc) via a complete > redownload (I want to package some things as "components"). > > Eggs seem like an ideal solution, but I haven't had any luck using them > in conjunction with py2exe. >
It should be possible. exclude your application code from being packaged, copy an egg file to your disribution directory and add it to sys.path. > It would seem that the most effective solution would be to package a > python interpreter (with wxPython, etc already included) into the > distributed app's directory and not use py2exe at all; however, since > everything would be included in the distribution, it would seem that the > full python distro would be huge (50MB at least), which defeats the > purpose of wanting to build the app into "components". > > Worst-case scenario would be to have them redownload the 10MB update > each time, but that's less than ideal, since the audience for my program > would have more frequent/less substantial updates over time, rather than > big updates all at once. > > Any guidance or suggestions are very much appreciated. You can try bbfreeze from http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/bbfreeze/ (of which I'm the author). It has support for egg files. If you package your application code as an egg, it will by default copy your whole egg (either as a directory or zipped) to the distribution folder. > > Marcus -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
