[PyQt] Windows/OS X installers for PyQt4 apps

[stan]

At least for windows,  code developed in Gentoo/Ubuntu/Python-2.5/ Qt/PyQt4 is 
very efficiently converted to self contained .exe's with pyinstaller and 
seems a little faster executing (smaller loading time) than py2exe. 
 I prefer pyinstaller a little for the moment, as it seemed clearer and runs 
well.  A simple howto with other quirks discussed and proper howto code 
that works out of the box (change to your program name, location...) is at 

http://bytes.com/topic/python/insights/579554-simple-guide-using-pyinstaller

which ran out of the box first time on a 2200 line Python QT application (it 
turned into a 9MB single compressed .exe) 

Not very technical, but this video shows the pyinstaller process quite clearly 

http://showmedo.com/videos/video?name=pythonHollandPyInstaller_german

Don't know about OS X, but people seem to have success with py2app


On Saturday 07 February 2009, Mark Voorhies wrote:
> I am starting work on a Python/Qt4 based GUI and am looking for advice on
> packaging the finished application for Windows XP and OS X.
>
> The details are:
>   * The development is being done on Linux (Ubuntu and Debian), so open
> source packaging tools that run on Linux are preferred.
>   * I am using the GPL licensing option for Qt4 (entire application
>     distributed under the GPL).
>   * The current dependencies are Qt4 and some pure Python libraries.
>   * The target audience is non-programmer biologists, so the install
> process should be on the order of "download this file and double-click to
> install".
>
> My initial googling suggests py2exe for Windows and py2app for OS X, but I
> am particularly interested in the quirks of using such tools to package
> PyQt.
>
> Thank you for your time,
>
> Mark Voorhies
>
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