On 7/12/05, Bob Ippolito
The most expedient option would be to specify the eggs and a pth as resources (or data_files) manually.
Second to that, you could make sure all the eggs are unzipped and on sys.path when the setup.py is running (this doesn't solve the resources thing, but modulegraph doesn't do that anyway).
As far as fixing the implementation, I don't know.. I don't really have time to work on open source Python stuff right now. Patches accepted, of course.
That's why I was asking about complexity... I'm considering digging in myself, but I haven't touched py2app's code before. I was all in favor of the most expedient option that you mention above. However, the problem that I ran into was that standard library modules that were needed by the eggs weren't getting picked up (since the eggs were just "data files"). If there is an easy way to run modulegraph on the eggs, then maybe a short-term solution is: - add an option to specify required eggs (using the setuptools syntax, ie "FooBar >= 27.2") - grab these eggs and drop them into the generated site-packages dir with a pth file - scan them for any modules they need and add those to the overall dependency graph (this is where I'm fuzziest on the difficulty level) So, really... the main problem to solve is finding out what is required by the modules in a given egg. Kevin