[Pythonmac-SIG] MacPython 2.3a2 on OSX 10.1

[Jack Jansen]

Pascal, John (and others),
I think I've found the problem with running applets on 10.1. It seems 
that the new trick that Just invented, having the applet main program 
being a python (or shell) bootstrap script with a #! line, and using 
that script to fire up the real Python script, doesn't work under 10.1.

I've tried a couple of #! scripts in .app bundles on 10.1, but they 
invariably give me an "Error -2857" on the console.
So I guess this means that having a script as the main program in a 
.app bundle doesn't work under 10.1:-(

I'm not sure how to proceed. We could scrap 10.1 support for MacPython, 
but that doesn't seem like a nice option. We could scrap Just's applet 
mods, but that I'm also not too excited about, the bundlebuilder stuff 
is a lot nicer than the buildtools hacks I used previously to create 
OSX applets. Moreover, bundlebuilder is also used for the 
PyObjC/applet-python-2.2 combo, and it's good to have only one way of 
doing things. We could replace the #! script by a true executable, but 
this would mean we'd have to store the boilerplate for that executable 
somewhere, and one of the nice things about the bundlebuilder solution 
is that it doesn't need any applet template anymore. Also, a true 
executable would still have to find out which script to run (although 
that could be coded in the .plist file, probably).
--
Jack Jansen, <Jack.Jansen@cwi.nl>, http://www.cwi.nl/~jack
If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution -- Emma 
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