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Help with Installer beta 3e

Arpad Kiss sekter at matavnet.hu
Mon Jan 3 16:18:07 EST 2000 
Andrew Sterian wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to use Gordon McMillan's Installer beta 3e software to distribute
> a set of scripts as a package. This is simple stuff, just a bunch of scripts
> that need to be installed in a directory somewhere on the Python path
> (i.e., no DLL's, no Tkinter, etc.)   I need this distribution to be a simple
> EXE that the user can download and run, assuming Python has already
> been installed.
> 
> The problem is I can't figure out how to use the Installer package. I
> tried running the Simple script on my top-level script and the generated
> EXE file fails to run (it says it can't find  .PY file that is part of my
> package).
> I deleted all .PYC files as the installhelp file suggests, but nothing helped.
> 
> So...is there any documentation or tutorial that explains how to get started
> with Installer to do basic stuff? I'm afraid Gordon's work is so robust and
> flexible that the basics have been obscured.
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Andrew.
> 

Hi,
Examin the builder.log file or try to use the ArchiveViewer.py, they may
help...
Sometimes Simple script is enough sometimes not, I usally edit the cfg
file then use the builder.py. The installer package contains some cfg
files, i have stolen tricks from them.
Arpad Kiss
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