Package a django project and its dependencies for a standalone "product"

Question

I've made a small little "application" utilizing Django as a framework. This is an application that is not ment to be deployed to a server but run locally on a machine. Thus the runserver.py works just nice.

I, as an developer is comfortable with fireing up the terminal, running python manage.py runserver and using it.

But I have some Mac OS X and Windows friends wanting to use my application, and they dont have virtualenv, git or anything else.

Is there a way I can package this to be a standalone product? Of course it would depend on Python being installed on the system, but it is possbile to package the virtualenv — with django and everything, and just copy it to another system and make it work?

And maybe even run the runserver in some kind a deamon mode?

Answer 1

Use setuptools and easy_install.

Here's an introductory article.