[Pythonmac-SIG] ANN: py2app / bdist_mpkg 0.1.5 preview

[Bob Ippolito]

On Nov 1, 2004, at 20:21, Cliff Wells wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 00:35 -0400, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>> I've put together a little preview of py2app 0.1.5, which has MAJOR
>> feature enhancements over 0.1.4.
>> 	http://undefined.org/python/py2app-0.1.5.mpkg.zip (installer for Mac
>> OS X 10.3)
>
> I'm trying to use this version of py2app.  I'm encountering the
> following error:
>
> error: can't copy 'favorites': doesn't exist or not a regular file
>
> This is true: favorites is a directory, not a regular file.  However 
> the
> same setup.py works for Windows, Linux *and* on OS X (if I use 'python
> setup.py py2app' rather than 'python setup.py bdist_mpkg').
---
>       data_files=[('', ['DU_Icon.ico', 'favorites', 'icons', 
> 'themes'])],
---
> For 'favorites' and 'icons' I could simply use glob.  However the
> 'themes' directory is about three levels deep and I'd like to avoid
> having to do a ton of work to generate that particular file list, esp
> since it is large and changes frequently.

Try passing it in as just:

         data_files=['DU_Icon.ico', 'favorites', 'icons', 'themes']

when using py2app, for now.

-bob