[Pythonmac-SIG] py2app standalone options

[Bob Ippolito]

On Dec 16, 2004, at 2:35 PM, Chris Barker wrote:

> Bob Ippolito wrote:
>
>> The way to tell it to include nothing is to build an alias bundle 
>> (-A), which is for development only and doesn't create something 
>> suitable for redistribution.
>
> Can you tell us more about what an Alias bundle is? Is like the old 
> MacPython applet?
>
> What I would like is a bundle that includes all the code that isn't 
> installed in the Python tree, but none of the code that is installed 
> in that tree. Is that what an Alias bundle is?

--semi-standalone includes all third party code (anything used by 
/Library/Python/2.3 and otherwise) and nothing else.  This is the 
forced default if you are using a /System installation of Python.  If 
you are using a third party Python, it is not the default.

an alias bundle is for development, like bundlebuilder's --link option. 
  It makes symlinks to any data files, and runs your code in-place.  
It's very very fast to build an alias bundle, and provides for a very 
fast edit/run cycle.

The PyObjC documentation and tutorials have been updated to use py2app, 
you might want to also read this:
http://svn.red-bean.com/pyobjc/trunk/pyobjc/Doc/tutorial/tutorial.html

-bob