[Pythonmac-SIG] Scripting and Packaging for an OSX release of an X11 Python App

[Bob Ippolito]

On Jun 24, 2004, at 3:23 PM, Robert Ferguson wrote:

> I'm trying to roll out a package (.pkg) distribution of an X11
> application called <a href="http://dkc.jhu.edu/gamera/">Gamera</a>
> without using the graphical tools (there will be lots of builds, I
> would prefer to script when possible). Unfortunately Python/Distutils
> under OSX puts the binary in
> /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/bin and when
> I create a package for this it trashes the symbolic links because of
> the well known issues with pax.

You can put the tools elsewhere.  distutils install/bdist/etc. take 
options that let you change those paths.  I think the option to change 
the script install path is --install-scripts, for example.

-bob
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