[Pythonmac-SIG] Please test PIL package on OS-X

[William Kyngesburye]

On May 2, 2008, at 11:07 AM, Christopher Barker wrote:

> The motivation for this is that the dependencies are otherwise very  
> tricky to build correctly for Universal python builds.
>
...and are already installed and used by many GIS users (Qgis, GDAL,  
GRASS, MapServer), who may also want to use PIL.

> The result is a PIL package that installs easily on PPC an Intel  
> systems, and can be bundles up with py2app to provide a Universal  
> stand alone application.
>
> I've built the installer, written a simple test app, and built an  
> app out of that. They all work on the PPC 10.4 and Intel 10.4  
> systems I have to test -- I'd love others to test them as well.
>
Quick import test works.

> If they do, then we could build versions for Apple's Python 2.5 on  
> OS-X 10.5, and maybe bundle up the Frameworks inside the PIL package  
> installer for one-click installation.
>
> And do the same thing for Matplotlib, and ???

I haven't built a python extension installer package before, but is it  
an option of distutils?  If so, it may be hard to *add* packages to  
the installer.  I know how I would setup a bulk framework installer  
(so it doesn't unnecessarily overwrite frameworks) manually with  
PackageMaker, and I could probably come up with a CLI packagemaker  
method.

Also, I would building be a Distribution package, not a Metapackage,  
since I rely on the builtin Javascript requirements checking.  This  
would limit it to Tiger+.  I'd have to dig up my old simple-package  
volumecheck scripts.

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