How do I deploy a Python desktop application?

Question

I have started on a personal python application that runs on the desktop. I am using wxPython as a GUI toolkit. Should there be a demand for this type of application, I would po

Answer 1

I have been using py2exe with good success on Windows. The code needs to be modified a bit so that the code analysis picks up all modules needed, but apart from that, it works.

As for Linux, there are several important distribution formats:

• DEB (Debian, Ubuntu and other derivatives)
• RPM (RedHat, Fedora, openSuSE)

DEBs aren't particularly difficult to make, especially when you're already using distutils/setuptools. Some hints are given in the policy document, examples for packaging Python applications can be found in the repository.

I don't have any experience with RPM, but I'm sure there are enough examples to be found.