Ticket #5 (accepted task)
Portable Python on Linux
| Reported by: | raph@… | Owned by: | p.zivkovic |
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| Priority: | minor | Milestone: | Not scheduled |
| Component: | core system | Version: | 1.1 |
| Severity: | low | Keywords: | Linux |
| Cc: |
Description
Hello,
I'm working for a software company and our products supports both
Linux and Windows plateforms. We are now seriously considering
using Python as an alternative language to C++.
On Windows would like to avoid having our clients to install Python,
so we thought about Portable Python be included in our package or
included in a dongle (USB) key that also contains some protection
software. I just tried Portable Python on a USB key and it worked
like a charm.
Now, on Linux, Python is usually already installed but it rarely
has the same version than we use. Typically RHEL5 comes with Python
2.4, when we use Python 2.6.1. Also it doesn't have wxPython that
we used too. So, we thought that Portable Python would be the
perfect solution for Linux too, I would say even better than
on Linux. We could make sure our clients would always use the
Python version we've been testing our software on.
So, what's the status of Portable Python for Linux ?
Many thanks.
Raphael
