Iron python, beautiful soup, win32 app
We are distributing a 40k line IronPython application. We have not been able to compile the whole thing into a single binary distributable. Instead we have been distributing it as a zillion tiny dlls, one for each IronPython module. This works fine though.
However, on the newer release, IronPython 2.0, we have a recent spike which seems to be able to compile everything into a single binary file. This also results in faster application start-up too (module importing is faster.) Hopefully this spike will migrate into our main tree in the next few days.
To do the distribution we are using WiX, which is a Microsoft internal tool for creating msi installs, that has been open-sourced (or made freely available, at least.) It has given us no problems, even though our install has some quite fiddly requirements. I will definitely look at using WiX to distribute other IronPython projects in the future.
Does beautiful soup work with iron python?
If so with which version of iron python?
How easy is it to distribute a windows desktop app on .net 2.0 using iron python (mostly c# calling some python code for parsing html)?