In a comment Guido made on a recent bug report for the 'freeze' utility, he stated:
"I think nobody really cares about freeze any more -- it isn't maintained." That being the case, what is the preferred/best replacement for freeze on a *nix platform? I'm looking for something that, like freeze, turns my application into a single-file executable, of the smallest size possible, that can be executed on a machine with no Python installation or development system. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list