NAME

       pyntor-selfrun - creation of self-extracting presentation archives

SYNOPSIS

       pyntor-selfrun [OPTIONS] presentation-archive|presentation-directory

DESCRIPTION

       Pyntor  is a presentation tool which can display slides and effects of various formats.  The tool pyntor-
       selfrun allows one to create self-extracting archives containing both the presentation and Pyntor itself,
       so that it can be run on computers where Pyntor itself is not installed. It also ensures independence  of
       the  corresponding  Pyntor  version,  as  future  changes of the application do not affect the previously
       created presentations.  The way pyntor-selfrun  works  is  that  it  takes  the  presentation-archive  in
       question,  packed  as  a tarball (which might be named *.pyntor), and the release tarball of Pyntor which
       must be present somewhere. Using a template file, it then creates the  self-running  and  self-extracting
       script for distribution.

       In  case  the  presentation-archive does not exist yet, pyntor-selfrun can create it automatically from a
       presentation-directory. This is useful even when  not  creating  self-extracting  archives,  see  the  -a
       option.

OPTIONS

       -t, --template=templatefile
              Uses  a  template  different  from  that one which is shipped with Pyntor and used by default. The
              template is a script in Python  or  another  scripting  language,  which  contains  the  variables
              %PYNTOR%  and %ARCHIVE% which are replaced with the base64-encoded contents of the two files given
              as arguments to pyntor-selfrun.  This option is not recommended for most cases.

       -a, --archive
              Creates a pyntor presentation-archive from a directory which contains a script  file,  local  data
              files  and  optionally some local components.  This is a convenience operation, since presentation
              archives are just tarballs, but in the future some checks might be done here.

       -r, --release=sourcetarball
              Specifies where to find Pyntor itself to include it into the self-extracting archive.  The  source
              tarball should be a released pyntor-*.tar.gz file.

       -h, --help
              Displays a summary of all available command line options.

BUGS

       In a future version, pyntor-selfrun should allow to create *.pyntor archives automatically by examining a
       script file, including only those files of Pyntor which it really needs.

AUTHORS

       Josef Spillner <josef@coolprojects.org>

SEE ALSO

       pyntor(1), pyntor-components(1)

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