Panda3D runtime distributable

treeform · April 29, 2009, 9:36pm

I see this is the doc for pyfreeze:

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This script can be used to produce a standalone executable from
arbitrary Python code. You supply the name of the starting Python
file to import, and this script attempts to generate an executable
that will produce the same results as “python startfile.py”.

This script is actually a wrapper around Panda’s FreezeTool.py, which
is itself a tool to use Python’s built-in “freeze” utility to compile
Python code into a standalone executable. It also uses Python’s
built-in modulefinder module, which it uses to find all of the modules
imported directly or indirectly by the original startfile.py.

Usage:

pfreeze.py [opts] startfile
I read the docs for

Options:

-o output
Specifies the name of the resulting executable file to produce.

-x module[,module…]
Specifies a comma-separated list of Python modules to exclude from
the resulting file, even if they appear to be referenced. You
may also repeat the -x command for each module.

-i module[,module…]
Specifies a comma-separated list of Python modules to include in
the resulting file, even if they do not appear to be referenced.
You may also repeat the -i command for each module.

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I am wondering what should the policy be on using python based tools for panda3d. It looks like most tools are c++ based except this one. I have several python tool i want to contribute to panda3d obj2eg.py, eggoctree.py, bunch of egg cleaner utils. But they are all written in python unlike standard panda3d tools. I wonder how i get get them in and have them work. It would be cool obj2egg.py and 3do2egg.py could be made part of the loader too. Its much easer to write importers/exporters in python then C++ for me. The c++/python tool boundary been the major road block for me making my python tools general purpose.