Programming, mostly.

It’s been a few months in the making, but now legume has gotten to a point that I thought it worthy of a 0.1 release. The basic feature-set is complete, so it’s in a usable state, that is if anybody can be be faced with using it yet, as at the moment there’s very little (read: nothing) in the way of documentation or user guides.

The release is available via pypi or google code, and I think that softpedia has already snapped it up.

As for the name: “It’s not a nut, it’s a legume! phew!” (Ricky Gervais, Animals).

A guide to creating a simplistic .exe python package installer:

1. Create a setup.py file in the directory above your package directory:

   MyPythonPackage
   setup.py
   

2. Copy the following in setup.py:

   from distutils.core import setup
   import setuptools
   import sys
   
   setup(name='MyAmazingLibrary',
       version='0.1',
       description='My Amazing Library',
       author='My Name',
       url='http://code.google.com/p/MyAmazingLibrary/',
       packages=setuptools.find_packages('.'),
       package_dir = {'':'.'},
   )

3. Open a command prompt in the directory containing the setup.py and execute

   python setup.py bdist_wininst
   

4. Observe how the installer appears in the newly created dist directory.

Additional Notes

• To specify that the installer is only for a specific Python install use the –target-version option with setup.py, eg:

  python setup.py bdist_wininst --target-version=2.5
  

• Swap bdist_wininst to bdist_msi to create a Windows Installer for your python package.