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

[Bob Ippolito]

On Mar 4, 2004, at 12:33 PM, Pascal Oberndoerfer wrote:

> 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?

My educated guess would be yes, but someone else will have to take care 
of that.. I don't have (nor want to have) 10.1 anywhere.. maybe if 
"MacOnLinux" was ported to OS X, then I would try it :)

-bob