Steve M wrote: [snip] > * Dual packaging mode: > * Single directory: build a directory containing an executable plus > all > the external binary modules (.dll, .pyd, .so) used by the program. > * Single file: build a single executable file, totally > self-contained, > which runs without any external dependency. [snip]
I've never used pyinstaller but even though it can create a single executable file, doesn't it still write files out to the filesystem to a temp directory for actual execution? Then cleans them up when the application quits? Whereas py2exe can create an executable that NEVER writes any files out to the filesystem, they are loaded instead directly from the executable? If so then that's a major difference and IMHO the py2exe method is superior. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
