McMillan installer

Is the McMillan installer still a viable tool? If so, is there a good
place to get it? Google search results are pointing to broken web
sites and bad links.

If it's no longer viable, are there alternatives?

-Chuck

Hello Chuck,

Is the McMillan installer still a viable tool? If so, is there a good
place to get it? Google search results are pointing to broken web
sites and bad links.

I don't know about the McMillan installer, but if you are on Windows, I
always feel confortable with py2exe:

http://www.py2exe.org/

It works smoothly almost always, unless you are trying to mix wxPython,
matplotlib and VTK on the same application and you choose to use py2exe with
the "bundle" option equal to 1 or 2 (this means that py2exe will create only
one file, the executable).

If you are not on Windows, you could try PyInstaller:

http://pyinstaller.hpcf.upr.edu/cgi-bin/trac.cgi

I don't know anything about it, however...

HTH.

Andrea.

"Imagination Is The Only Weapon In The War Against Reality."
http://xoomer.virgilio.it/infinity77

>Is the McMillan installer still a viable tool? If so, is
there a good
>place to get it? Google search results are pointing to
broken web sites
>and bad links.

I don't know about the McMillan installer, but if you are on
Windows, I always feel confortable with py2exe:

http://www.py2exe.org/

It works smoothly almost always, unless you are trying to mix
wxPython, matplotlib and VTK on the same application and you
choose to use py2exe with the "bundle" option equal to 1 or 2
(this means that py2exe will create only one file, the executable).

If you are not on Windows, you could try PyInstaller:

http://pyinstaller.hpcf.upr.edu/cgi-bin/trac.cgi

I don't know anything about it, however...

We use py2exe in combination with Inno Setup
(http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php) for Windows distribution. That works
pretty well.

David

I'm still using Installer for a rather complex application involving
VTK, ITK, wxPython and a number of other libraries. It's very good in
tracking down implicit dependencies. In my setup, being able to build
for Linux and Windows is important.

Somebody has taken over the maintenance of the Installer code, but I
can't find the new website at this moment.

I've had a look at cx_Freeze as well: it works well on smaller
projects and is very easy to get working (!!!), but with more complex
dependency trees, you have to specify many things manually.

Good luck,
Charl

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On 11/22/05, Chuck Esterbrook <chuck.esterbrook@gmail.com> wrote:

Is the McMillan installer still a viable tool? If so, is there a good
place to get it? Google search results are pointing to broken web
sites and bad links.

If it's no longer viable, are there alternatives?

--
charl p. botha http://cpbotha.net/ http://visualisation.tudelft.nl/

Hi Chuck,

look at http://pyinstaller.hpcf.upr.edu/cgi-bin/trac.cgi
this is the McMillanInstaller with a new name and a new maintainer.

regards,
Jürgen