Richard Jones' Log  Thu, 15 Jan 2009 Sane Python application
packaging: conclusion (for now?)  This is part four of my
continuing adventure in packaging my Python application.  In
part three I was close to a solution. In the end I have decided
to:    1. Use the "build_apps" distutils command I wrote to
generate zip application bundles for the three target platforms.
The zip file contains all libraries (pure python, thankfully)
and a launcher script to run the application.   2. Split out the
examples from the rest so there's just one examples zip file and
the other zip files are about half as heavy.   3. Generate a
standard distutils source distribution which is intended for
Linux system package maintainers.   4. Upload all those files to
Google Code using a modified googlecode_upload.py script.   5.
Still register with PyPI but set the download_url to point to
Google Code.  The upload script was modified in two ways:    1.
First, it's broken with the svn module available under Ubuntu
(and others). I modified