[Pythonmac-SIG] Writing Cocoa "tools" in Python only?

Bob Ippolito bob at redivi.com
Wed Sep 24 02:16:04 EDT 2003


On Wednesday, Sep 24, 2003, at 01:18 America/New_York, Dinu Gherman 
wrote:

> Jack Jansen:
>
>> Tools in the PB-sense of the word aren't bundles, so there isn't
>> really anywhere to put the Python interpreter, is there?
>
> Good point, obviously! I'm not sure if you can compile "everything"
> into one binary. If so, I guess it would not make a lot of sense,
> to do this excessively. Instead, one would probably rather build
> some disk image and spread the necessary bits around, of course
> risking to mess up something existing...

It's technically possible, but not worth doing.. anyone that needs 
command line tools (a) can use an alias to an executable inside of a 
bundle or (b) can have a copy of python installed with the appropriate 
dependencies.

-bob




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