On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:46 PM, Brian Blais <bbl...@bryant.edu> wrote:
> Hello, > > I was wondering if there is any standard or suggested way of installing > packages *without* going to the commandline. I often have students who, > from there experience in Windows, have never looked at the commandline > before and it is a bit of a challenge to get them to install something (i.e. > go to the commandline, cd over to the proper folder, type python setup.py > install, etc...). I've never seen a package with something like a > "compileme.bat", but was wondering if there is some suggested way of doing > this or some reasons *not* to do this. I can always write my own (1-line) > .bat file, but I didn't want to reinvent the wheel. Perhaps there is a > better way for me to do this, ideally in a platform independent way. > You don't even have to write a bat file. Python's distutils package allows you to build exe file which creates generic windows wizard window for installing packages. Take a look at distutils package http://docs.python.org/distutils/builtdist.html -- Thanks & Regards, Godson Gera Asterisk consultant India <http://godson.in>
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