[Pythonmac-SIG] Why Do I Explicitly Need MacPython

[Russell E. Owen]

In article <451976A9.5050102 at niessink.com>,
 Frank Niessink <frank at niessink.com> wrote:

> Russell E Owen:
> > At 5:05 PM +0200 2006-09-23, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
> >> ...I'm -0 on adding support for DMGs.  Using a DMG doesn't buy 
> >> enough over a zip to warrant spending time on it.
> > 
> > I was offering my own time. I've found them helpful for two reasons:
> > - They can be reliably opened. I used to distribute my app as a zip 
> > archive, but for some reason some of my users tried to use old 
> > versions of Stuffit Expander instead of the built in BOMHelper to 
> > unpack them, resulting in an unusable application. I've had no such 
> > complaints since switching to .dmg files (yet; I suppose some user, 
> > somewhere, has figured out how to mis-open dmg files).
> > - Convenient for the user: no disk clutter and need to discard the 
> > unpacked package when finished. Just eject.
> 
> Maybe I missed it (or maybe there are disadvantages I am not aware of), 
> but I think I did not see the suggestion to simply use the hdiutil 
> command. The snippet below is part of the Makefile for building a Task 
> Coach release. The make.py is a distutil script that creates 
> TaskCoach.app. hdiutil then packages the app as a dmg:
> 
> macdist: icons i18n
>          $(PYTHON) make.py py2app
>          hdiutil create -ov -imagekey zlib-level=9 -srcfolder 
> build/TaskCoach.app dist/TaskCoach.dmg

Yes, I was thinking of using hdituil when I suggested it. However, Bob 
Ippolito would prefer that bdist_mpkg *not* be capable of making disk 
images of packages. He's fine with py2app making .dmg files so it may be 
worth submitting a patch for that. Are you offering?

-- Russell