Bob, I just switched over to using py2app -- and it's working great! Now I can toss all that XCode garbage. Joshua On Oct 20, 2004, at 9:35 PM, 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)
http://svn.red-bean.com/bob/py2app/trunk (source repository) http://svn.red-bean.com/pyobjc/branches/py2app-branch/ (PyObjC repository refactored to use py2app and bdist_mpkg)
py2app: non-ascii application names works now (e.g. Jäger) support for non-framework builds of Python (e.g. darwinports) slightly more documentation (INSTALLING.txt, README.txt) PyPI information enhanced setup.py that can use bdist_mpkg builds and installs the py2applet tool as part of its bdist_mpkg script (to /Developer/Applications/Python Tools/py2app/) installs the examples to /Developer/Python/py2app/Examples
bdist_mpkg: It's new! bdist_mpkg is a distutils command that builds a metapackage for Installer.app (or /usr/sbin/installer). It's part of the py2app suite. It should work with ANY distutils-using Python module or application that uses distutils and doesn't really screw up their "install" command When using bdist_mpkg with a framework Python, it will default the scripts installation dir to /usr/local/bin instead of the middle of nowhere inside the Python framework It installs a script, /usr/local/bin/bdist_mpkg, which you can use to build metapackages from any setup.py. When the metapackage is built, it will even open Installer for you (unless you pass it any --options, or just --). This is a great alternative to using python setup.py install. You can just customize and uncheck scripts, headers, etc. if you don't want to install them. You can subclass bdist_mpkg and make it do crazy things, like install documentation, code examples, or applications. See py2app's setup-lib/py2app_mpkg.py or PyObjC's setup-lib/pyobjc_mpkg.py (on the py2app-branch) bdist_mpkg should become the "guts" of the next generation PackageManager instead of bdist_dumb tarballs. will automatically determine if root permissions are required to install the package (make sure you haven't mucked with your permissions your build machine if you plan on distributing the metapackages)
After the dust settles a bit, probably this weekend, I'll do a more official release... but I would like to get some feedback in the meantime.
-bob
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