[Pythonmac-SIG] Nuances of Bundle Builder when moving betweenversions of

Bob Swerdlow rswerdlow at transpose.com
Fri Dec 12 07:33:43 EST 2003


We had precisely this same problem and "solved" it by doing our builds on a
machine with Jaguar.  That works, but its a pain.  On the other hand, I
think it was C.A.R.Hoare who said in the early 1980s that "any program that
works is better than one that doesn't" :-)
- Bob

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jack Jansen" <Jack.Jansen at cwi.nl>
To: "RANDY BURNS" <RBURNS at tacoma.k12.wa.us>
Cc: <pythonmac-sig at python.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 6:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Nuances of Bundle Builder when moving
betweenversions of


>
> On 11-dec-03, at 22:19, RANDY BURNS wrote:
>
> > What are the nuances in packageing a wxPython program so it can run on
> > the various versions of Darwin.
> > I have an application that runs fine on Panther, but when I moved it
> > to Jaguar, I got the following console error.
>
> The problem is indeed that something built on Panther will often not be
> deployable on Jaguar.
>
> One thing that definitely does not work is using bundlebuilder with
> --standalone: it will take the Panther Python framework along, which
> won't work on Jaguar. Whether there are similar issues when not using
> --standalone but incorporating wxPython I don't know.
>
> For now the only sure way to work around this is to build on Jaguar.
>
> We are thinking of ways to allow building on Panther, which would
> entail (at least) allowing the Jaguar Python framework to exist on
> Panther with adverse consequences to Panther Python (currently there
> are such consequences), and it may also have repercussions for
> distutils (which will have to build with the various environment
> variables that cause Jaguar compatibility).
>
> Good ideas for other ways to solve this are welcome,
> --
> Jack Jansen, <Jack.Jansen at cwi.nl>, http://www.cwi.nl/~jack
> If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution -- Emma
> Goldman
>
>
>
>





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