Side note / rant:

So, after about two days' worth of research on how to get this crap to end users who are not particularly computer-savvy or happen to own Poser 8, I officially declare Python a dead language.

It is ridiculous that the official Windows source code is still tied to the Microsoft compiler and that there is apparently no support to speak of for MingW. It is also ridiculous that apparently there's still no equivalent to an executable JAR file in the Python world.

This reminds me of why about five years ago I decided to ditch years worth of Python code from another project and redo everything in Java. That despite the fact that Java is a pretty painful language to code in.

My point is: if anyone who can talk Python wonders why they won't be able to read my source code anymore (unless of course they learn Scala, which I recommend anyway), or why they will have to download several megabytes for an executable instead of just a few KB, that's the explanation.

I want a standalone - or as close as I can get to one - that's independent of Poser, because not everyone has it, or a recent enough version of it. I don't want to buy a Microsoft compiler and I definitely don't want to program in C or C++. Also, I don't want to have to build different versions for PC and Mac. Since Python fails to deliver, I'll switch to JVM-based development, just as I did five years ago.

This is how it will go:
  Step 1: Install Java.
  Step 2: Download my JAR file.
  Step 3: Execute my JAR file.
  Step 4: Repeat Step 3 as needed.

:glare:

-- I'm not mad at you, just Westphalian.