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Feature: build package

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We should hook the "build" menu in VS to allow a user to build a package. We would capture all the linked files, referenced projects, compiled .pyds and .dlls, and non-site-package dependencies and copy them to a build directory. A user could then execute "python program.py" in the build directory and everything would run without them having to hack around with the PYTHONPATH -- all the imports would be in the correct place. Then for deployment, the user could just robocopy/ftp the entire build directory to the desired deployment path.

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bpgarman wrote Nov 8, 2011 at 4:25 AM

This plus compiling an .exe would be great. Some users have done some investigating here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3999489/compiling-an-ironpython-wpf-project-to-exe

Zooba wrote Nov 8, 2011 at 8:08 AM

Formalising the final "link" step will be handy.

It would be ideal if it were done in a way that an interpreter can provide its own compilation mechanism separately from PTVS (an import package, probably), then any distro can provide its own linker to produce a C exe or a .NET exe or whatever sort of package they want.

dinov wrote Mar 13 at 6:02 PM

We should also support deploying the resulting package to PyPI.

Zooba wrote Apr 1 at 3:48 PM

This can also package into a zip file (or soon, a .pyz[w] file). Zip files are executable with python.exe if they contain a main.py.

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