Dipole Consulting SPRL

How i've have updated Thuban so that we can create a independant application of it.

 I used cx Freeze 3.0.3 to do it.

This is a draft and will be update soon (for win32). 

Update (2007-05-10) : i've made interesting test with pyinstaller 1.3 under win32. It seems to work fine and embeds all the needed libraries 

Code modifications

Update all the Python code using __path__  or __file__ for managing the frozen state of the new application. For example, Thuban/Model/resources.py has been updated in the following way :

 if hasattr(sys, 'frozen'):
    projdir = \
            os.path.join(os.path.dirname(sys.executable), "Resources", "Projections")
else:
    projdir = \
            os.path.join(Thuban.__path__[0], pardir, "Resources", "Projections")    

I will post a patch asap.

 Freezing the app under linux:

A single command line : 

FreezePython --install-dir ~/tmp/dist/ --include-path=current/thuban:current/thuban/Lib/ --include-modules=Extensions.svgexport,Extensions.umn_mapserver, Extensions.mouseposition,Extensions.importAPR,Extensions.ogr, Extensions.bboxdump,Extensions.export_shapefile,Extensions.gns2shp,Extensions.profiling, Extensions.wms,pyexpat,xml.sax.drivers2.drv_pyexpat  current/thuban/thuban.py

All the not directly used modules have to be added to the --include-modules option to be integrated in the application. 

Finally, you only have to add the needed missing resources by copying the directories to the new dist :

    cp -r current/thuban/Resources /home/did/tmp/dist/
    cp -r current/thuban/Data /home/did/tmp/dist/
    cp -r current/thuban/Doc /home/did/tmp/dist/
    cp -r current/thuban/Examples /home/did/tmp/dist/

Launching /home/did/tmp/dist/thuban just works fine.