Expanding to other platforms

For now, I can attest that the application works on Windows 7 and even Windows 8 (single-touch navigation of the MapView is especially fun). However, at some point you may find yourself needing to share your GIS application on platforms other than Windows. Python and most of our application's dependencies are in principle cross-platform, and I have personally tested that the application framework that I created over the course of this book also worked on a Mac OS X, though with slightly different installation instructions.

When you are finished creating your application and are ready to distribute it, just get a hold of the operating system that you want to support, install the necessary third-party libraries, and copy and paste your application folder. If the application works from within Python, then just wrap it all up with one of the packaging libraries for your operating system that were suggested in Chapter 7, Packaging and Distributing Your Application...