Distributing Python Apps and MySQL

[dcrespo]

Hi there... I want to distribute my python apps and the MySQL Database
in the easiest way possible. I mean a user just run the installation
file and all is automaticly installed. Any suggestions?

My knowledge: I know, as many of you, that there's py2exe for compiling
python apps for running under Windows. But what about the database
structure and data? I think it could be reached through a .qry run in
the MySQL database from an installation instruction. But (one more
time) what about the automated installation of the MySQL database
without user intervention?

Daniel Crespo

 

[rbt]

Hi there... I want to distribute my python apps and the MySQL Database
in the easiest way possible. I mean a user just run the installation
file and all is automaticly installed. Any suggestions?

My knowledge: I know, as many of you, that there's py2exe for compiling
python apps for running under Windows. But what about the database
structure and data? I think it could be reached through a .qry run in
the MySQL database from an installation instruction. But (one more
time) what about the automated installation of the MySQL database
without user intervention?

Daniel Crespo

I don't think one can distribute mysql within a software package w/o
buying a commercial license to do so. Check out their licensing on their
website here:

"When your application is not licensed under either the GPL-compatible
Free Software License as defined by the Free Software Foundation or
approved by OSI, and you intend to or you may distribute MySQL software,
you must first obtain a commercial license to the MySQL product."

http://www.mysql.com/company/legal/licensing/commercial-license.html

 

[Jarek Zgoda]

rbt napisa³(a):

I don't think one can distribute mysql within a software package w/o
buying a commercial license to do so. Check out their licensing on their
website here:

"When your application is not licensed under either the GPL-compatible
Free Software License as defined by the Free Software Foundation or
approved by OSI, and you intend to or you may distribute MySQL software,
you must first obtain a commercial license to the MySQL product."

http://www.mysql.com/company/legal/licensing/commercial-license.html

Don't see any legal problem here, if package is on GPL-compatible or
OSI-approved license.

Anyway, if you want this "installer" to be multiplatform, I think you
should write one. There are many good installer software packages for
Windows (chief among free ones are Inno Setup and NSInstall), but I know
only one for linux platform -- the one that XFCE uses and I don't know
its internals, so I will speak only for Inno Setup for Windows.

It's really comprehensive tool set, as you can perform many tasks during
installation -- you can install subpackages, perform pre- and
post-installation steps and automate many tasks, providing they can be
scripted. See http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php and read
documentation, it's definitely worth this.

 

[Dave Cook]

Hi there... I want to distribute my python apps and the MySQL Database
in the easiest way possible. I mean a user just run the installation
file and all is automaticly installed. Any suggestions?

sqlite is even easier: a single DLL for the engine, a single file for the
data, and the license couldn't be more liberal.

http://www.sqlite.org

Dave Cook

 

[dcrespo]

Hi. Thank you for your answer. I had been working on NSInstaller since
it was the first one I looked up.
I take advantage of this comment to say that NSInstaller really works
(for whoever that is reading this)