[Pythonmac-SIG] Distributing Python applications for the Mac

[Konrad Hinsen]

On 05.01.2004, at 00:01, Jack Jansen wrote:

> What I think the best solution would be is to first package your 
> application with everything it needs. Bundlebuilder is the tool you 
> want to look at for this, it packages everything up into a single 
> ".app" bundle, which looks like one file to the end user. There's one 
> slight

Thanks, that sounds like what I want!

> problem: if you want your applications to run on both 10.2 and 10.3 
> you will have to create it on 10.2 right now. Create the application 
> with --standalone, and it will include everything it needs, including 
> all the bits of Python that you use. If 10.3 only is good enough: 
> create the application on 10.3 and *don't* use --standalone, and it 
> will use the standard MacPython that Apple supplies. The app will be 
> quite a bit smaller too. You can create 10.2-compatible apps on 10.3, 
> but it is a bit difficult right now.

I guess I'll go for 10.3 only then and tell the others to use Fink. 
Perhaps I could ask Apple for subsidies for that approach ;-)

> Even if your applications are programs to be run from a Terminal 
> window I think I would use bundlebuilder, after hacking the bootstrap 
> script that it uses to run Python in a Terminal window in stead of 
> directly.

The applications use Tk, and the users I have in mind at the moment 
don't even know what Python is.

Will those bundles include Tk as well?

Konrad.