[Pythonmac-SIG] Minimal Install Results

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 12-mei-04, at 16:06, Glenn Andreas wrote:

>
> So if you test for the existance of /usr/bin/python before running a 
> script, that won't work.  If you embed python using the shared 
> framework, it probably won't even launch correctly since the shared 
> binary isn't there.  So Bob's careful safety net for PyObjC won't work 
> either unless you make sure to weak-link the framework (I'm not sure 
> how doable that is, since I though weak-linking was on a per-symbol 
> basis, so all the symbols for Python would need to be weak-linked).

PyMacApp explicitely loads the python framework at runtime, you will 
get a niceish error message (in the console window).

BTW. It is not a "careful safetynet for PyObjC", the solution is meant 
as a general bundle-runner for python-based .app's.

Ronald