Macintosh Development

[David Eppstein]

In article <3CBA5EDB.C60BF821 at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz>,
 Greg Ewing <greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

> MacPython has a facility for creating an "applet" from
> a Python script. This is a small Macintosh application
> that can be launched from the Finder. You can drop
> files on the applet, and their pathnames will appear in
> sys.argv.

Which is great for your own use -- it's what I do with Python programs 
that I'm going to run with much frequency.  But it's not so good for 
distributing programs to others, unless you feel comfortable telling 
them to install the appropriate version of Python before using your 
applet.

MacPython does also have a facility for creating a standalone 
application, but these are much bigger (several megabytes?) and I 
haven't been able to get this to work.

-- 
David Eppstein       UC Irvine Dept. of Information & Computer Science
eppstein at ics.uci.edu http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/