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Linked Data Visualizations Across Multiple Files
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Windows Installer #146

Open ChrisBeaumont opened 11 years ago

ChrisBeaumont commented 11 years ago

Can we create a Windows binary using py2exe?

JudoWill commented 10 years ago

I may try to take this on. I have gotten a lot of requests from biologists for a windows version. Currently I've been installing anaconda on their computers and then doing the pip install method, maybe we can make this clearer in the website documentation. I'll Google around and see if I can find anything.

JudoWill commented 10 years ago

Just to keep you in the loop. I'm getting reasonable results with Nuitka (http://nuitka.net/). Its not plug&play but I think with some debugging I'll be able to get a fully packaged Windows EXE file. I have some Windows machines that I can test this out on.

ChrisBeaumont commented 10 years ago

Interesting -- Nukita seems to be more ambitious than other projects like py2app/pyinstaller -- those just try to bundle the python interpreter + dependency libraries into a standalone app. Nukita seems to try to compile and optimize python programs. I'm curious to see if that can work with something like Glue

JudoWill commented 10 years ago

It compiled an exe file that opened on a Windows machine, which is more then I can say for py2app (I haven't tried PyInstaller). I haven't put it through its paces yet and I'm trying to work out a way to test the compiled version robustly ... I don't want to assume compiled == works.

But it's a step in the right direction.

astrofrog commented 8 years ago

I'm marking this as low priority, since users can now use conda, so the installation barrier is lower than it used to be. Maintaining application bundles is also a lot of work.