[pygame] Binary distribution woes

[Michael Brunton-Spall <mib@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

My game is coming along nicely, and my artist said he'd like to try it
out.  He runs Mac OSX, so I figured it would be a good chance to try out
the cross platform abilities of python / pygame.
Well after a lot of fiddling and installing the new python2.4 and pygame
packages, we got the game to work, but to run the game I had to manually
install those packages, and bring up a console, and run the correct
python interpreter on my Game.py.
Suffice to say it ran buetifully, (Thanks pygame!), but thats not really
a great way of distribution a finished game.  My artist didn't even know
he had a console and he certianly couldn't use it to run the game.
We tried double clicking on the py file but it openes in the default
python ide instead of running it.

So I did some digging today, looking at py2app, py2exe, and the
disttools package, ez_setup etc.
It seems incredibly complicated to try to build a binary file.

What I want isn't too complicated really.  (or at least I didn't think
so), I want to be able to build 3 single files, one for MacOSX, one for
unix, and one for Windows.  Each should contain my game resources, and
have an icon/application file that is double clickable to start the
game.

Surely some of the people using pygame here have needed to do this at
some point, and I wondered, given the lack of other information, how
does one approach doing that?

Cheers

Michael Brunton-Spall
MIB Games