Hello, Disclaimer: I'm not an expert on the subject.
> Setuptools and friends seem to be focused on distributing modules, I'm > at the other end of the scale where I want to distribute an entire > application so that an Administrator can run a single install and have > a fully operational product. A key requirement is that I want the > application to fit in with what and admin would expect an application > to look like at the system level i.e site-packages like structures > aren't suitable. You do that with distutils as well. > So far I've thought of using a configure script and make which would > call some custom python installer script to do the actual install. It > fits in nicely with what I want to achieve but are there any better > options out there, how are others doing the same thing? Every distro flavor has it's own installer: apt/deb, rpm, port, ... On Windows you can use one of the free installer (InnoSetup and friends). HTH, -- Miki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://pythonwise.blogspot.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
