On Jul 12, 2005, at 6:28 PM, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
At 05:29 PM 7/12/2005 -1000, Bob Ippolito wrote:
Well, just do the second suggestion then. "Install" the eggs somewhere, unzipped, and make sure it's on sys.path during setup.py. Maybe you could crank the ez_setup wheels (or whatever module is appropriate, I haven't looked at eggs yet) at the top of your setup.py and automate this.
Well, if it just has to be on sys.path during setup.py, then it should be working now, shouldn't it? I mean, if he installed them to Python's site-packages. In the alternative, he could create a wrapper command that calls require("project==version") to find all the eggs and put them on sys.path.
Like modulefinder, modulegraph doesn't know anything about fancy PEP 302 stuff yet.
So, I guess my suggestion to Kevin is to try installing to a directory on sys.path, using the new --always-unzip option to force the packages to be unzipped, and then try hacking py2app to do a require() before looking for dependencies (consulting the setuptools "test" command for an example).
I'm not sure you'd really want to hack py2app anyway, just the setup.py before setup() is called.
I suspect this means that the packages will get merged into one another with no distinction at runtime, but whatever works, works.
Yeah, I'm not sure why you would possibly care about this at runtime for an application that's "frozen", anyway.
One interesting thing that eggs do, however, in the problem of module-finding is that they potentially reduce the question to one of just identifying what portions of the standard library each egg uses, which in some ways is a significantly easier problem because import tricks (e.g. dynamic imports, exec's, etc.) involving the standard library occur far less often. It might be worth adding something modulegraph-ish to setuptools to support this, although it's not at the top of my list right now.
Modulegraph should already know about all of the tricks in the stdlib (at least in 2.3, not sure if I updated it for 2.4) including the modules that are imported by the core behind your back (warnings, etc.).. It doesn't contain anything py2app specific, it might as well be used as-is. http://svn.red-bean.com/bob/py2app/trunk/src/ (modulegraph depends on altgraph, the other stuff you can ignore) -bob