Packaging up a Python/Twisted Matrix application...

[Chaz Ginger]

I have a rather large Python/Twisted Matrix application that will be run
on Windows, Linux and perhaps Macs. I was wondering if there are any
tools that can be used to create an installer that will bring in Python,
Twisted Matrix, my application libraries and anything else I need?

I have tried using ezsetup with no luck (it seems not everything can be
installed with it). I was hoping to find something as nice (and
complete) as Perl's CPAN but can't seem to find anything.

Does anyone have any recommendations?

Peace,
Chaz.

 

[Felipe Almeida Lessa]

I have a rather large Python/Twisted Matrix application that will be run
on Windows, Linux and perhaps Macs. I was wondering if there are any
tools that can be used to create an installer that will bring in Python,
Twisted Matrix, my application libraries and anything else I need?

I haven't tried with Twisted, but I had success in using py2exe + Inno
Setup on a program dependent on Python + ReportLab + pygtk. As both
ReportLab and pygtk got even C extensions, I don't see why this setup
wouldn't work with Twisted.

 

[Chris Mellon]

I have a rather large Python/Twisted Matrix application that will be run
on Windows, Linux and perhaps Macs. I was wondering if there are any
tools that can be used to create an installer that will bring in Python,
Twisted Matrix, my application libraries and anything else I need?

I have tried using ezsetup with no luck (it seems not everything can be
installed with it). I was hoping to find something as nice (and
complete) as Perl's CPAN but can't seem to find anything.

Does anyone have any recommendations?

Peace,
Chaz.
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For windows, py2exe is the de facto standard and it works fine with Twisted.

There are similar scripts for the other platforms but I'm not familiar
with them, I understand py2app is the standard for OS X.

Note that OS X and pretty much every version of linux ship with
Python, you might re-think your need to distribute a binary and
instead just use a distutils install.