[wingide-users] Custom Executable and Python Shell

[Wingware Support]

On Wed, 27 Dec 2006, Michael Foord wrote:
> One of the beauties of IronPython is that embedding the engine into custom
> executables is trivially easy.

Ah, now it is a bit clearer what you're doing.

Maybe the "Python Executable" terminology in the GUI is 
confusion.

When you embed Python (whether it's IronPython or CPython or 
whatever implementation), Wing doesn't want you to set the Python 
Executable to the executable that embeds Python.  You should 
always set this to a real interpreter (currently only a CPython 
interpreter will work).  We launch it with Python specific 
command line args in various ways internally to inspect the 
environment and so it cannot be anything but Python. This is used 
for more than just debugging and the shells, but also for source 
code analysis.

Your best bet for now is to set it to a CPython that corresponds 
as closely as possible to the IronPython that you're using.

To get the launching behavior you're trying to achieve, use a 
script rather than Wing's Execute function, which you've now 
convinced me is even more broken than I imagined.

> Sorry to harp on about it.

No problem.  Your feedback is useful in making a reasonable 
Execute function and related changes.

- Stephan