April 2006 Meeting
Thursday, April 13th at 7:00 PM at FhcrcMeetingLocation.
(Thanks to SethFalcon for arrangements.)
Attendance
- that guy I forgot his name but will fix it in wiki later.
Talk
Ideas:
I've been playing with Django some and would be happy to talk about that some if that was of interest. -- SethFalcon
Yes, please! -- BrianDorsey
Shall we offer to help out or present at the VanPyz conference this summer? (assuming it happens)
What we talked about:
- Django
- It was very good demo, inspired me to take a second look at django. -- NormanJHarman
- Chris??? asked what to use for parsing configuration files
BrianDorsey mentioned cfgparse http://cfgparse.sourceforge.net/ which after looking it over, rocks my socks! There is some goofyness in the more estoric features but for 90-98% of config files this will do what you expect. Intergrates with and api similar to optparse. -- NormanJHarman
ConfigObj looks good too. Esp if optparse intergration is not important.
- distribution/install tools mentioned
innosetup - http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php (create self extracting installs ala installShield)
py2app - http://pythonmac.org/wiki/py2app (for osx)
py2exe - http://www.py2exe.org/ (for win32)
McMillan Installer is back from the dead, now called pyInstaller - http://www.pyinstaller.org/
Post-Meeting Talk