I want to create a single executable from my Python project. A user should be able to download and run it without needing Python installed. If I were just distributing a package, I could use pip, wheel, and PyPI to build and distribute it, but this requires that the user has Python and knows how to install packages. What can I use to build a self-contained executable from a Python project?
I thought I heard that py2exe was able to do this, but I never figured it out. Has anyone successfully done this? Can I see your setup.py file, and what command line options you used?
setuptools was developed to overcome Distutils’ limitations, and is not included in the standard library. It introduced a command-line utility called easy_install. It also introduced the setuptools Python package that can be imported in your setup.py script, and the pkg_resources Python package that can be imported in your code to locate data files installed with a distribution. One of its gotchas is that it monkey-patches the distutils Python package. It should work well with pip. It sees regular releases.
I have questions about egg files in Python.
I am trying to write setup.py for my package. My package needs to specify a dependency on another Git repository.
All of the documentation for Pyinstaller talks about including individual files.
Is it possible to include a directory, or should I write a function to create the include array by traversing my include directory?
I’m trying to create a Debian package that doesn’t delete an empty directory after it’s purged. Specifically, I’m creating my own package containing some CA certificates I trust.