[Pythonmac-SIG] Bundle Builder Questions

[Chris Barker]

Hi all,

Relevant to some of what I wrote as par tof our heated "is wxPython 
worth using" discussion, I'm trying, for the first time, to use 
BundleBuilder to make a stand alone app out of a wxPython app of mine.

My first question, is how do I test it? I need to manually tell it to 
include some of the wxPython libraries, but if I don't, it still runs 
fine on my machine, as those libraries are present. I had to move it 
over to someone else's machine, test it, note which library it couldn't 
fine, include that, repeat  7 times. I'd really like an easier way!

Two, I'm having trouble making a semi-standalone, which I think is what 
I want if I want to build and run it on 10.3 only. In my buildapp file, 
I put:

myapp.standalone = 1

I get a standalone, with python itself included

IF I try to replace that with:

myapp.semi-standalone = 1

well, that won't work, as semi-standalone is not a valid identifier. If 
I build with:

python buildapp.py --semi-standalone

I still seem to get a python executable in the bundle, but I don't get 
the wxPython code, at least I don't think so.

Three, and this is an odd one. If I make a Bundle, run it, stop it, put 
it in the trash, then try to empty the trash, I get an error, saying 
that "Python" is in use. THe only way I"ve found to delete it is to get 
it out of the trash, and rm it at the command line.

Four: I needed to add 7 wxPython libraries. I expected this, but I'm 
surprised that I had to add all of them, including:

libwx_macd_html
libwx_base_carbond_net

As I'm not using any of the wxHTML stuff, or any wx networking stuff. 
The resulting bundle is 22MB (and compresses to 6.2MB) so it wuld be 
nice to make that as small as possible!

Thanks for any pointer,

-Chris




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