============================= Distributing Your Application ============================= Once your application works properly, you can create a "tarball" from it by using the ``setup.py sdist`` command. The following commands assume your current working directory is the ``tutorial`` package we've created and that the parent directory of the ``tutorial`` package is a virtualenv representing a :app:`Pyramid` environment. On UNIX: .. code-block:: text $ ../bin/python setup.py sdist On Windows: .. code-block:: text c:\pyramidtut> ..\Scripts\python setup.py sdist The output of such a command will be something like: .. code-block:: text running sdist # ... more output ... creating dist tar -cf dist/tutorial-0.1.tar tutorial-0.1 gzip -f9 dist/tutorial-0.1.tar removing 'tutorial-0.1' (and everything under it) Note that this command creates a tarball in the "dist" subdirectory named ``tutorial-0.1.tar.gz``. You can send this file to your friends to show them your cool new application. They should be able to install it by pointing the ``easy_install`` command directly at it. Or you can upload it to `PyPI `_ and share it with the rest of the world, where it can be downloaded via ``easy_install`` remotely like any other package people download from PyPI.