From: Alan Biddle on
Hi,

I could use a recommendation on a free installer for use by an
unsophisticated programmer, that would be me, for some simple programs
which are a bit more than "Hello World," but only a little. Basically
reading text files and processing the results. Nothing fancy. I am
using PY2EXE to create the distribution.

In doing the Google, and from past posting here, I see that most
recommendations are for inno and nsis. I expect that either would do
what I want. Is one a better choice for someone to learn enough to do
basic stuff without getting bogged down in details which are not
immediately important?


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Alan
From: Gabriel Genellina on
En Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:45:39 -0300, Alan Biddle <ALANBIDDLE70(a)yahoo.com>
escribi�:

> I could use a recommendation on a free installer for use by an
> unsophisticated programmer, that would be me, for some simple programs
> which are a bit more than "Hello World," but only a little. Basically
> reading text files and processing the results. Nothing fancy. I am
> using PY2EXE to create the distribution.
>
> In doing the Google, and from past posting here, I see that most
> recommendations are for inno and nsis. I expect that either would do
> what I want. Is one a better choice for someone to learn enough to do
> basic stuff without getting bogged down in details which are not
> immediately important?

I, for myself, prefer InnoSetup. For a simple and standard installer, just
use the wizard to create it, and you're done.

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Gabriel Genellina

From: Alan Biddle on
Thanks you very much for the suggestion. I will give it a try.

Since I posted the original question, I have tried PyInstaller. I am
using Python 2.6.4, which is technically not supported, but it worked
fine for the simple programs I tried, and simple enough even for me.
;)


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Alan