investigate possibility of building full DeVIDE Python distribution

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Instead of the current pyInstaller-based system, also look at the
possibility of automatically generating portable Python-DeVIDE
distribution, no binary-magic required.

Each module-kit would then contain its own DLLs, and could more easily be
added and removed.  User could also startup just Python without DeVIDE, and
so forth.

Just to be completely clear: this will involve no installer-like package
(pyinstaller, bbfreeze, cxfreeze, py2exe, etc), simply the building of a
complete distribution a la PythonXY, Enthought, etc.

This should fix for example issue 111, and could potentially make it easier
for the user to build their own binary modules.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by cpbotha on 21 Jan 2009 at 8:57

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Short note:

* On Linux this is a question of moving things around a bit.  Most of the work 
has
been done since johannes builds Python from scratch.
* On Windows we'll either need to build everything from scratch (as we do on 
Linux),
or figure out for every one of the basic installers how to unpack it without 
installing.

Original comment by cpbotha on 21 Jan 2009 at 9:27

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Building VTK extensions for DeVIDE as documented in
http://code.google.com/p/devide/wiki/AddingVTKLibsToBinaryDeVIDE should be 
possible
out of the box.

Original comment by cpbotha on 4 Mar 2009 at 5:42

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We have now entered the DRE era, so this issue can be closed.

Original comment by cpbotha on 11 Aug 2009 at 3:02

• Changed state: Fixed