[BitPim-devel] Compiled Python

[Lukas Sabota]

Hello,
I am curious about the BitPim package. I downloaded the .deb supplied
on the website, and I did not need to have wxpython, aspw, or dsv
installed on my system. But when I ran the source code from CVS through
the Python interpreter, I was required to have those libraries installed
on my system. Was this because you compiled those libraries into your
program? How did you compile this project? What advantaged does a
compiled program have to a one ran directly from the interpreter? Thank
you!

God Bless,
Lukas

PS: Thanks for a great project. Does everything I need it to do
(except video i/o.. oh well).

[Roger Binns]

I downloaded the .deb supplied on the website,

There is no .deb supplied by the BitPim developers. There is however an
rpm with instructions on how to convert it to a deb.

Was this because you compiled those libraries into your
program?

They are bundled with the distributed rpm/exe/dmg.

How did you compile this project?

The bundling is py2exe (Windows), cx-Freeze (Linux) and py2app (Mac).

http://bitpim.org/papers/baypiggies/

What advantaged does a
compiled program have to a one ran directly from the interpreter?

Read the above presentation.

Roger

[Lukas Sabota]

Post by Roger Binns

I downloaded the .deb supplied on the website,

There is no .deb supplied by the BitPim developers. There is however an
rpm with instructions on how to convert it to a deb.

Er, yeah. Excuse that typo. I used the RPM and converted it to deb
through alien.

Post by Roger Binns

Was this because you compiled those libraries into your program?

They are bundled with the distributed rpm/exe/dmg.

How did you compile this project?

The bundling is py2exe (Windows), cx-Freeze (Linux) and py2app (Mac).
http://bitpim.org/papers/baypiggies/

Thank you for the above reference, just what I needed to you.

Post by Roger Binns

What advantaged does a compiled program have to a one ran directly
from the interpreter?

Read the above presentation.
Roger

Thanks for your help Roger!

God Bless,
Lukas