Re: Distributing programs depending on third party modules.

2007-05-16 Thread Tina I
Kevin Walzer wrote: > Tina I wrote: >> Kevin Walzer wrote: > > >> And maybe the smartest thing to do would be to dump PyQt and just go >> for tkinter, however ugly it is :/ > > Tkinter doesn't have to be ugly. > > I sell a proprietary Tkinter app commercially on OS X: > > http://www.codebykev

Re: Distributing programs depending on third party modules.

2007-05-16 Thread Kevin Walzer
Tina I wrote: > Kevin Walzer wrote: > And maybe the smartest thing to do would be to dump PyQt and just go for > tkinter, however ugly it is :/ Tkinter doesn't have to be ugly. I sell a proprietary Tkinter app commercially on OS X: http://www.codebykevin.com/phynchronicity-running.png It tak

Re: Distributing programs depending on third party modules.

2007-05-16 Thread Kevin Walzer
Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > Kevin Walzer a écrit : > > Note that if you go that way, neither Windows nor MacOS X are actually > able to cleanly manage such dependencies (which is why the usual > solution on these platforms - or at least on Windows - is to just bundle > everything in a single b

Re: Distributing programs depending on third party modules.

2007-05-16 Thread Tina I
David Boddie wrote: > On May 16, 7:44 am, Tina I <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> A binary would be ideal. I'll look into the freeze modules and >> Pyinstaller. Even if they don't handle huge things like Qt it would be a >> step in the right direction if it handles smaller third part modules. >> An

Re: Distributing programs depending on third party modules.

2007-05-16 Thread David Boddie
On May 16, 7:44 am, Tina I <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A binary would be ideal. I'll look into the freeze modules and > Pyinstaller. Even if they don't handle huge things like Qt it would be a > step in the right direction if it handles smaller third part modules. > And maybe the smartest thing t

Re: Distributing programs depending on third party modules.

2007-05-16 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Kevin Walzer a écrit : > Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > >>> What platform are you doing this on? On the Linux platform, >>> "dependency hell" of this sort is pretty much unavoidable, >> >> Yes it is. EasyInstall works just fine. > > You can install a beast like PyQt with easy_install? Meaning, tha

Re: Distributing programs depending on third party modules.

2007-05-15 Thread Tina I
Kevin Walzer wrote: > > What platform are you doing this on? On the Linux platform, "dependency > hell" of this sort is pretty much unavoidable, because there are so many > different packaging systems (apt, rpm, and so on): it's standard to let > the package manager handle these dependencies. A

Re: Distributing programs depending on third party modules.

2007-05-15 Thread Kevin Walzer
Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: >> What platform are you doing this on? On the Linux platform, >> "dependency hell" of this sort is pretty much unavoidable, > > Yes it is. EasyInstall works just fine. You can install a beast like PyQt with easy_install? Meaning, that it will download and build/inst

Re: Distributing programs depending on third party modules.

2007-05-15 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Kevin Walzer a écrit : > Tina I wrote: > >> Hi list, >> >> Is there a preferred way to distribute programs that depends on third >> party modules like PyQt, Beautifulsoup etc? I have used setuptools and >> just having the setup script check for the existence of the required >> modules. If they'

Re: Distributing programs depending on third party modules.

2007-05-15 Thread Kevin Walzer
Tina I wrote: > Hi list, > > Is there a preferred way to distribute programs that depends on third > party modules like PyQt, Beautifulsoup etc? I have used setuptools and > just having the setup script check for the existence of the required > modules. If they're not found I have it exit with

Re: Distributing programs depending on third party modules.

2007-05-15 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Tina I a écrit : > Hi list, > > Is there a preferred way to distribute programs that depends on third > party modules like PyQt, Beautifulsoup etc? I have used setuptools and > just having the setup script check for the existence of the required > modules. If they're not found I have it exit wi

Distributing programs depending on third party modules.

2007-05-15 Thread Tina I
Hi list, Is there a preferred way to distribute programs that depends on third party modules like PyQt, Beautifulsoup etc? I have used setuptools and just having the setup script check for the existence of the required modules. If they're not found I have it exit with a message that it need th