[Pythoncard-devel] More on standaloneBuilder

Hi All:

Spurred on by a bunch of e-mails I've received in the last couple of weeks, 
I've started looking at the standaloneBuilder code again.

One of the things that stymied me for a while was the fact that Gordon 
McMillan was no longer maintaining his Installer package, which 
standaloneBuilder relies on to build Windows executables. My initial thought 
on this was to change the code to use py2exe instead. I've spent the last few 
days getting my head round that and I think I'm happy enough now with how it 
works.

It turns out that the McMillan Installer is officially a dead project, but it 
has been resurrected in the form of pyInstaller, details at:

http://pyinstaller.hpcf.upr.edu/cgi-bin/trac.cgi

I'm now in the position that I have the choice on which way to go with this - 
update the code to work with pyInstaller, or re-write some of it to use 
py2exe instead.

It's still my intention to get this working and donate the whole lot to 
PythonCard, so I was wondering if those subscribed to this list have any 
feelings one way or another about which build tool deserves to receive our 
support?

Of course, if I was any good at Python, I'd be able to make the program 
auto-detect the build system  and configure itself accordingly! :-)

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Regards

Phil Edwards
Brighton, UK