[Distutils] Improving distutils' script and GUI app handling

[Robert Kern]

Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> At 11:10 AM 9/15/2005 -0700, Robert Kern wrote:
> 
>>I have a feeling that there isn't a pressing need to be able to install
>>.app bundles from easy_install. If the package maintainer is going to go
>>to the trouble of writing a setup.py that can be used with py2app, he'll
>>almost certainly actually build the .app binary and distribute it. Since
>>they're standalone, they don't really interact with the other installed
>>packages.
> 
> If you can run a wx or tkinter (or other cross-platform GUI) app on Mac OS 
> without needing anything special, but users would prefer to have the .app, 
> it would probably be a good idea to have it, even if the original developer 
> hasn't targeted that platform specifically.  For example, packages like 
> idle or the pydoc tkinter GUI would seem to merit something like this.

Oh, certainly it would be nice. But AFAICT, you really do have to write
a setup.py specifically for py2app. The information you need isn't
something you can simply divine from a generic setup.py .

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Robert Kern
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