the Forty-Second Parallel

From Guido Van Rossum's PyCon 2004 keynote (wish I could've made it):

Q: Python packaging painful - any solutions to not letting user screw you up with multiple versions?

A: Bittorrent works well. Not aware of other efforts in that regard? Guido would build a special version of python and force the application to start that version of python.

I can't say that I've packaged all that many apps in my short journey with Python. The couple that I have (on OS X), though, were anything but trivial to package. Once I jumped through all the right hoops, it went ok. But, how to get there wasn't all that obvious.

Not to complain - I think it's cool that you can package Python apps at all. But, the end result seemed a bit on the heavy side - especially when you throw wxPython into the mix. I just wonder if there's a better way that I've missed somewhere along the way.