Hi, I'm creating a GUI program with wxPython which will be distributed for Mac and Windows. The audience of the program is not technical at all (eg they've never heard about Python yet ;-), so everything should go automatically. The program should be able to update itself and to update its database (collection of .txt files). These are two separated things and don't happen simultaneously. I thought of the following:
- seperate the code which will be updated and zip it to use a zipimport - zip the .txt files These files can then be downloaded (urllib or so) and if the download has completed succesfully, replace their old files. For the updated python code it is necessary to restart the program for the database not. These questions arise: ++ How can I bundle a zipimport file with py2exe/py2app? Let say this is the folder layout of the program: application.py code.zip (contains main.py, ui.py, etc..) * data.zip (contains .txt files) * other files (preferably bundled but not necessary) such as the wxPython libraries and whatever py2app will want to include (* means should be remote updatable/synchronizable) application.py is just a dummy file which calls code.main.main() Should I declare code.zip as a data file or as a python package? Of course it would be nice if someone be so kind to suggest a simple setup.py recipee for this... ++ I have Python2.4, wxPython2.6.3, OS X 10.4 Will it run on other versions of OS X? If not will a version compiled with py2app on OS X 10.3 run on OS X 10.4 or do I need to provide a file for every OS X version? ++ Do I have to declare something special for py2app and wxPython? Thanks in advance, Stani PS Please cc your answer to spe.stani.be IatI gmail.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
