Distribute a Python program with a minimal environment
Question: I want to distribute a Python application to windows users who don't have
Python or the correct Python version.

I have tried py2exe conversion but my Python program is really complex and
involve code import on the fly by xmlrpc process so it is not suitable for
py2exe.

The complete Python folder takes around 80MB but this includes docs and a lot
of non-essential things.

Do you know if there exists a small package of a minimal Python interpreter I
can include with my program ? Include a folder of 80MB is a bit big ;)


Answer: [PyInstaller](http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=pyinstaller&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8)
is a py2exe "competitor" that has many extras (such as being cross-platform,
supporting popular third party packages "out of the box", and explicitly
supporting advanced importing options) -- it might meet your needs. Just be
sure to install the SVN trunk -- the existing (1.3) release is way, WAY
obsolete (PyInstaller is under active development again since quite a while,
but I can't convince the current maintainers to stop and do a RELEASE already
-- they're kind of perfectionists and keep piling more and more great goodies,
optimizations, enhancements, etc, into the SVN trunk instead;-).

