Re: [PyQt] Inter-office distribution/installation of packages/modules

2011-07-03 Thread Erik Janssens
That's indeed an interesting approach. We only update a single egg (that egg than contains our app and the libraries that change most often). The application is thus able to update itself and restart itself with some kind of bootstrapper. The egg itself is in the User Data folder, so that any u

Re: [PyQt] Inter-office distribution/installation of packages/modules

2011-06-28 Thread Erik Janssens
that's interesting, how do you handle the auto update with py2exe ? which part of the app gets updated ? On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 12:58 AM, Demetrius Cassidy wrote: > We have an app which must be redistributed to multiple groups, with 40+ > users and py2exe is the reason we are able to do this. Gu

Re: [PyQt] Inter-office distribution/installation of packages/modules

2011-06-16 Thread Erik Janssens
Hi, I would not agree with using Py2exe, while the idea is nice, we have had many issues with it, basically for 2 reasons : - it's dependency analysis, in combination with automatic updates : if your update uses a part of a package that was not used in the original package, you need to redepl

Re: [PyQt] Inter-office distribution/installation of packages/modules

2011-06-16 Thread Mike Ramirez
On Thursday 16 June 2011 10:13:10 James Polk wrote: > Apologies if this is too off-topic,but I'd like to propose a discussion > of how-to's and where-fore's regarding distributing python modules to a > user-base. > > Recently, I've been using Mark Hammond's excellent pywin32 packages, > along

Re: [PyQt] Inter-office distribution/installation of packages/modules

2011-06-16 Thread Arnold Krille
On Thursday 16 June 2011 19:13:10 James Polk wrote: > Apologies if this is too off-topic,but I'd like to propose a discussion > of how-to's and where-fore's regarding distributing python modules to a > user-base. > > Recently, I've been using Mark Hammond's excellent pywin32 packages, > along

Re: [PyQt] Inter-office distribution/installation of packages/modules

2011-06-16 Thread Demetrius Cassidy
Have you tried using py2exe? We have an application written in python with many dependencies, and without py2exe we would have to create an installer to manually install python and all the dependencies...And we initially did that, but that was far more problematic in the end than deploying an .exe

[PyQt] Inter-office distribution/installation of packages/modules

2011-06-16 Thread James Polk
Apologies if this is too off-topic,but I'd like to propose a discussion of how-to's and where-fore's regarding distributing python modules to a user-base. Recently, I've been using Mark Hammond's excellent pywin32 packages, along with NumPy and PyOpenGL,etc.  I have a user-base of approx 40