Re: Making small executive file for distribution

2008-09-24 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-09-25, Larry Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marin Brkic wrote: >> Not commercial distribution, but an academic kind of sorts - giving >> the exe file to coleagues, so they can use it in their work. Giving >> .py file is not an option, since due to centralized computer >> maintenance, th

Re: Making small executive file for distribution

2008-09-24 Thread Larry Bates
Marin Brkic wrote: Not commercial distribution, but an academic kind of sorts - giving the exe file to coleagues, so they can use it in their work. Giving .py file is not an option, since due to centralized computer maintenance, they don't (and cannot) have installed python (except the ones that

Re: Making small executive file for distribution

2008-09-24 Thread Marin Brkic
On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:50:56 -0700 (PDT), sturlamolden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sep 24, 3:17 pm, Marin Brkic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Has anyone had a situation like this ? All your inputs and suggestions >> are more then welcomed. > >Send them the .py file and confirm that it does wo

Re: Making small executive file for distribution

2008-09-24 Thread sturlamolden
On Sep 24, 3:17 pm, Marin Brkic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone had a situation like this ? All your inputs and suggestions > are more then welcomed. Send them the .py file and confirm that it does work. The lack of Python can be blamed on the incompetent BOFH. Chances are the situation w

Re: Making small executive file for distribution

2008-09-24 Thread Sebastian Bassi
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Marin Brkic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As far as I know py2exe is the only option which can do such a thing > (make exe files from scripts). Is there a way to make those exe files > a little smaller (for a small script they easily go up to 5-10 mb). An alternati

Re: Making small executive file for distribution

2008-09-24 Thread Marin Brkic
On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:32:56 -0700 (PDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >If you don't create a monolithic EXE, then most of the extra files >(that make up the bulk of the size) can be shared between other >converted scripts. That is, if you convert foo.py, and send the bundle >to your colleague, then c

Re: Making small executive file for distribution

2008-09-24 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Sep 24, 8:17 am, Marin Brkic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not commercial distribution, but an academic kind of sorts - giving > the exe file to coleagues, so they can use it in their work. Giving > .py file is not an option, since due to centralized computer > maintenance, they don't (and cannot

Re: Making small executive file for distribution

2008-09-24 Thread mdsherry
On Sep 24, 9:17 am, Marin Brkic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not commercial distribution, but an academic kind of sorts - giving > the exe file to coleagues, so they can use it in their work. Giving > .py file is not an option, since due to centralized computer > maintenance, they don't (and cannot

Making small executive file for distribution

2008-09-24 Thread Marin Brkic
Not commercial distribution, but an academic kind of sorts - giving the exe file to coleagues, so they can use it in their work. Giving .py file is not an option, since due to centralized computer maintenance, they don't (and cannot) have installed python (except the ones that bring their own compu