[Pythonmac-SIG] Re: Which installer to use for MacPython-OSX?

[Jack Jansen]

On vrijdag, augustus 23, 2002, at 04:41 , tmk wrote:

> Yo,
>
> I seem to remember that the great folks at OmniGroup had 
> devised a mechanism where an app embeds all related stuff  
> *including* its framework (meaning you don't need to install 
> the framework in one of the three usual domains).
>
> E.g. OmniWeb is packaged with all the frameworks within OmniWeb.app.
>
> That way one can be sure that the app will work regardless of 
> where it's installed but, OTOH, other apps can *NOT* easily 
> leverage the already installed "private" frameworks.
>
> For a tool such as python this is definitely a HUGE 
> inconvenience so I'm no advocating this configuration except 
> perhaps as a special optional packaging of Python on Mac OS X.

The Omni tools indeed don't share their frameworks. If you check 
in two or more of their tools you'll see a lot of duplication. 
Not good for Python, especially with the applets:-( And I've 
rather a high opinion of the Omni folks, so if they're not 
sharing their frameworks I think there's probably a good reason 
for it...

In a private discussion Rudo suggested I look at the 
SharedFrameworks, but I haven't been able to find anything that 
actually uses it, and the documentation I've seen is very vague 
(only listing it as a possibility, without explanation for how 
it would work). Does anyone have any experience with this? Does 
it actually work, or is it a vaporware feature like the 
role=shell plist value? Would it be suitable for Python given 
the fact that we need to cater for the interpreter, the IDE, 
applets and embedding applications (and non-applications, like 
the OSA component)?
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