I've used py2exe for windows apps failry successfully.
I now need to make a Wx app which will be used on both windows & Mac.
(If I can get it working on linux too with minimal effort, that would be
ideal, but linux isn't a priority)
The app will just parse text files. No network, database or hardware
interaction (other than basic file I/O) is required.
Given that Python on the Mac is so contrived & problematic, what is the
best way to deploy a simple wxPython app for both Windows & Mac, so that
end users will not need to have Python & wx on their systems?
Is Andrea's executable maker still alive & active, or are there other
cross-platform deployment tools available for wx apps?
How do I handle that some users may be running 32-bit an others may be
running 64-bit OSs?
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Tony Cappellini <cappy2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've used py2exe for windows apps failry successfully.
> I now need to make a Wx app which will be used on both windows & Mac.
> (If I can get it working on linux too with minimal effort, that would be
> ideal, but linux isn't a priority)
> The app will just parse text files. No network, database or hardware
> interaction (other than basic file I/O) is required.
> Given that Python on the Mac is so contrived & problematic, what is the best
> way to deploy a simple wxPython app for both Windows & Mac, so that end
> users will not need to have Python & wx on their systems?
Contrived and problematic?
> Is Andrea's executable maker still alive & active, or are there other
> cross-platform deployment tools available for wx apps?
> How do I handle that some users may be running 32-bit an others may be
> running 64-bit OSs?
Just use py2app on OSX, its almost exactly the same as py2exe on
Windows. There is a simple example of doing this in my book (which
IIRC you have a copy of ;) ).
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Tony Cappellini <cappy2...@gmail.com>wrote:
> I've used py2exe for windows apps failry successfully.
> I now need to make a Wx app which will be used on both windows & Mac.
> (If I can get it working on linux too with minimal effort, that would be
> ideal, but linux isn't a priority)
> The app will just parse text files. No network, database or hardware
> interaction (other than basic file I/O) is required.
> Given that Python on the Mac is so contrived & problematic, what is the
> best way to deploy a simple wxPython app for both Windows & Mac, so that
> end users will not need to have Python & wx on their systems?
In addition to py2app, you might look at PyInstaller. It supports all three
major platforms and I'm pretty sure GUI2Exe works with it too.
> Is Andrea's executable maker still alive & active, or are there other
> cross-platform deployment tools available for wx apps?
I know he still maintains it, but I haven't seen much action on it lately.
> How do I handle that some users may be running 32-bit an others may be
> running 64-bit OSs?
> Thanks
32-bit apps work on 64-bit systems most of the time, just not the reverse.
So you can either create just 32-bit versions or create both and name them
accordingly.
MAke it sound a bit incomplete and minimally tested. Bu tit would be
nice to have one solution that works everywhere -- while py2app was
designed to mirror the py2exe API, it has, in fact, diverged, an I
find I have to essentially write two totally different setup.py files
anyway.
A tiny bit about py2app:
If you use one of Apple's Python installs, py2app does not include
python (Apple's licensing makes that illegal), so you really do'nt
have a stand alone.
So I suggest using the pyton.org binary builds:
The 32bit PPC+Intel build will support OS-X > = 10.4 -- very good coverage.
The 32+64 bit Intel build will support OS-X >= 10.6 Intel only --
which is probably most people by now anyway.
Note that if you are compiling any of your own extensions, the 32 bit
build required XCode 3.8, NOT XCode 4.* -- you can get it from Apple,
but they bury it a bit, so poke around to find it.
>> Is Andrea's executable maker still alive & active, or are there other
>> cross-platform deployment tools available for wx apps?
> I know he still maintains it, but I haven't seen much action on it lately.
>> How do I handle that some users may be running 32-bit an others may be
>> running 64-bit OSs?
>> Thanks
> 32-bit apps work on 64-bit systems most of the time, just not the reverse.
> So you can either create just 32-bit versions or create both and name them
> accordingly.
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> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Mike Driscoll <m...@pythonlibrary.org>
> wrote:
> >> Given that Python on the Mac is so contrived & problematic,
> problematic, maybe, contrived? huh? Anyway, if you think of the Mac
> like Windows -- i.e. dont expect a system Python, it's pretty much the
> same deal.
> > In addition to py2app, you might look at PyInstaller. It supports all
> three
> > major platforms and I'm pretty sure GUI2Exe works with it too.
> Has anhyone use PyINstaller for OS-X? I have not seen a single post
> abou tit on the pytonmac list. THis page:
If I had a Mac I'd certainly try PyInstaller. I just keep seeing that they
make it known that they support Macs on their front page, so I figured they
had tested it a bit. I know I shouldn't do that.
