Re: [pygame] Re: PyGame and Py2Exe 0.6.6

["Chris Van Bael" <chris.van.bael@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2/12/07, Kris Schnee <kschnee@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Chris Van Bael wrote:
> > On a side note: where the files that are now in library.zip previously
> > in my executable (0.3.x)?
> >
> > So how are you guys handling this for your pygame programs?
>
> It's kind of embarrassing, but I've been using Py2EXE the dumb way. I
> put a very basic "setup.py" file and some copy of my actual code into
> the C:\Python24 directory, even though the code normally lives in
> C:\Code and there's a whole directory structure that needs copying. Then
> I run Py2EXE, then manually copy my graphics, music (etc.)
> subdirectories into the new C:\Python24\dist location. This gives me a
> directory I can then ZIP up and distribute to Windows users without Python.
>
> As I understand it, this is a bad method!

It works, so it's not that bad ;-)
In fact the pygame2exe script for the old py2exe does exactly the same thing!
And if you give the data_files option, it's also the same thing only
now I can (I hope) reuse much of the script between py2exe and py2app.
But do you get a library.zip file?  If not, which version of py2exe
are you using and what's in your setup.py file?

Chris