On 2009-01-06 18:36, Joe Strout wrote: > I've actually been rather frustrated by Python lately. It's great at > some things, but rather poor at others. In the latter category is > building a neatly packaged executable that can be shipped to users and > run reliably on their machine. On the Mac in particular, if you want > your app to run on any PowerPC or Intel machine runing 10.4 or later, > and you're using anything not in the standard framework (such as > MySQLdb), it's a bit of a nightmare. > > Compare this to, say, REALbasic, where you just check "Mac OS X > Universal" in the Build Settings, click Build, and you're done. (RB has > its own issues, of course.)
You're looking for py2app: http://undefined.org/python/py2app.html (creating a button that invokes it is left as exercise to the interested reader :-) > So I would say that Python as a language is great, and its standard > framework is great. But its (many) IDEs are pretty poor, and the > process of building a polished, packaged app is abysmal. It's certainly work, but that's always the case for nicely polished apps :-) For packaging, you can choose from a multitude of installer builders - none of which are really Python specific. We tend to use InnoSetup on Windows, the Mac OS installer for Mac OS X and an installer shell script for Unix. More recently we've found InstallJammer which looks very promising, esp. when building applications for multiple platforms. > And there are > some things (such as Flash-style web applets) that you still can't do at > all in Python, even after all these years. You're looking for Silverlight: http://www.voidspace.org.uk/ironpython/silverlight/index.shtml > But of course, the nice thing about an open-source environment is that, > with enough motivation, time, and expertise, one can fix the most > annoying limitations oneself. And if I stick with Python over the > upcoming years, I'll certainly do my part. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Jan 06 2009) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
