[YLUG] python/setuptools

[Stephen Garton]

On 13/12/06, Arthur Clune <arthur at clune.org> wrote:
>
> Anyone out there used setuptools to make a windows package? I have a
> project that will install nicely on *NIX and pull down and install
> it's dependencies from PYPI. For Win32 I can run
>
> $ python setup.py bdist_wininst
>
> to get a Win32 installer, which does indeed install my project but
> doesn't pull down the dependencies.
>

Arthur,

I've not used setup tools before, but I have used py2exe
(http://www.py2exe.org/) which compiles to an .exe file and packages
the dependencies with it.

Not sure if it's any help or not to you, but it was worth a shot :)
-- 
Steve Garton
http://www.sheepeatingtaz.co.uk