Sybren Stuvel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I might be wrong expecting that a language whose moto is "Batteries > > Included" would be able to produce exe files. > > Indeed, you're wrong. Why would such an ability be included in Python?
distutils.exe, included in Python, in fact does have the ability to produce .exe files, just not completely general ones. > It's a cross platform language. What need would Mac, Linux, BSD, > Solaris etc. users have for such a feature? The same need that they have for msvcrt, winreg, winsound, or the SGI IRIX specific functions currently in the library. The same need that Windows users have for the Unix specific parts which are in the library. The same need that non-numeric programmers have for the cmath module, which is also in the library. > And why would it have to be included, when there is an easy solution > just around the corner? You prooved that it was easy enough to > install and use by someone who just learned Python. I really don't > see the problem here. Um, if the TV ad for some Walkman says "batteries included" and the batteries aren't included, you have legitimate reason to ask what's going on. That it's easy enough for you to go to the store and buy batteries separately is irrelevant. You didn't get what was advertised. Now a Windows .exe installer wasn't one of the advertised features of Python and maybe there's good reasons to leave it out, but its platform specificness is not one of those reasons. There's already plenty of platform specific stuff in Python. Personally I think including a .exe packager in Python would be a great idea. As a Linux user I can't easily run Windows-specific utilities like Inno Setup. So I don't have a good way to make .exe's from my Python code that Windows users can easily run. Having a cross platform .exe packager included with Python would be useful the same way cross compilers are useful. I'm using an x86 computer but I can easily configure gcc to produce ARM code. Why shouldn't my Linux Python installation be able to produce Windows .exe's? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
