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As Skurn writes in the Orb of Darkness thread, I should release PyDink on this site. However, before I do that I would like to know that it can be installed by people who are not me.

So I'm looking for testers to install and use it while having contact with me on IRC. I estimate that it will take about 4 hours, which can be spread out over multiple days. Of course, I don't actually know, otherwise I wouldn't need testers.

I want testers using Windows and GNU/Linux (that's the same thing most people call simply "Linux"). If you're brave, I'm also happy to try and get it to work on Mac, but previous experience with that wasn't good, unfortunately.

If you're interested, please reply here or send me a private message.

I trust you've updated it to contain all the files/directions since I recall you having to update it when I tested it?

Or whatever happened? It should work for everyone unless they're on some weird system like Windows 8 that hates everything that is put on the same computer that it's on.

I don't remember what the problem was, but as far as I know I have everything.

Well, except for the dependencies; you still need to install python2 and pygtk from their own places. And where that is depends on your computer and OS, which is one reason I don't want to bundle it with PyDink. It's also the problem with Macs: I didn't manage to install those. I think PyDink itself shouldn't have a problem with Macs.

I'd suggest you start by making a proper distutils setup.py script which would allow you to create cx_freeze or py2exe/py2app packages which would make distribution very easy on Windows and OS X and probably *nix as well.
You might also want to change the configuration setup method to use configparser and an ini file instead of editing pde.gui.in as it's kind of esoteric.