Hi,

I am new to linux and so far I have only used ubuntu. I have developed a python application which I would like package and distribute. The problem with packaging tools such as pyinstaller and cx_freeze is that you have to compile the bootloader first. Now If I compile the loader on karmic 9.10, the binary would suffer from compatibility issue. In other words I won't be able to execute the app on a lower version such as ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS.

The solution is to use as much as old libc as you can to compile the bootloader. It seems CentOS-3 is based on glibc 2.3, which is pretty old and if I compile and do other stuff of on CentOS-3, it'll do the job and hopefully covers almost all the end user base that I am expecting will use the app. It may possible that I might face some issues with my requirements mentioned below but I have no practical idea about them.

As I mentioned before that I am new to linux and I always prefer to use VirtualBox, when ever I try any new distribution.

In short these are my requirements and I would like to know whether CentOS-3 is the right choice for me or not?

1. Use VirtualBox. XP Host & CentOS-3 guest. 2. python 2.6.4 3. wxPython 2.8.10.1 from wxWidgets repository 4. libcairo 1.8.8 5. pycairo 1.8.6 6. couple of other python modules.

Are these packages available or if not can be downloaded from other repositories? I am also concerned about my requirements that whether they themselves will suffer from binary dependency issue or not because I of using CentOS-3.

Some one also suggested that you should also compile your requirements(python, wxpython etc.) along with the bootloader and this would make your package and underlying libraries backward compatible and lesser chance of any failure.

Best regards

Prashant

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