[Pythonmac-SIG] PyMacApp - Flexible Executable Stub For Python

Pascal Oberndoerfer p.oberndoerfer at urheberrecht.org
Thu Mar 4 12:33:09 EST 2004


Bob Ippolito at bob at redivi.com:

> As part of BundleBuilder2, I'm developing an executable stub for Python
> that *does not* link to anything but Cocoa, and does not use the execve
> hack.  The same compiled executable will be usable as a stub for any
> (dynamically linkable) Python on (probably) any version of OS X.  No
> recompilation or mach-o header rewriting required.  It should be a lot
> nicer to GDB, and measurably quicker to start than the current execve
> idiom, and doesn't require compilation like the xcode template options.

I apologize for the ignorant question, but could this (maybe?) solve the
"one showstopper bug" <http://www.python.org/sf/781445>, the BuildApplet
problem on 10.1 as well?

Pascal




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