[Pythonmac-SIG] semi_standalone option broken in py2app + Leopard Python?

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 30 Jun, 2008, at 19:09, Christopher Barker wrote:

> Hengist Podd wrote:
>> I'm trying to build semi-standalone applications against Leopard's  
>> stock Python 2.5 with an appscript 0.19.0 .egg installed,
>
> well, py2aqpp is known to have problems with eggs. is that a zipped  
> egg?  If so, it may work better with an unzipped one:
>
> $ easy_install -Z TheNameOfTheEgg

Leopard's stock install of py2app should be able to deal with zipped  
eggs as wel.

Note that py2app needs a considerable amount of attention though:

* need enhancements to properly support eggs:
   - copy entire eggs into the .app bundle, instead of just bits and  
pieces
   - support the "entry-point" feature for eggs
   - an option to specify required eggs in setup.py (like  
setup_requires, but for a specific app)

* support for the ".xib" files as introduced by Xcode 3

* nice to have: support for including a complete python stdlib

* nice to have: support for including (and possibly building as well)  
plugins into the .app bundle
    (that is, some way to specify that a Quicklook/spotlight/ 
systemprefs/.... plugin should be copied into the .app bundle)

* py2app really needs a testing framework, or at the bare minimum a  
set of example projects that properly exercise py2app:
    - PyObjC apps
    - wxPython apps
    - PyQT apps
    - apps using commonly used extentions that give/have given  
problems (such as matplotlib)
    - ...

There's little chance that I'll be able to actually implement all of  
this in a reasonably timeframe though.

Ronald
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