[Pythonmac-SIG] Did I bust py2app?

[Bob Ippolito]

On Feb 1, 2005, at 8:54, Charles Hartman wrote:

> On Jan 30, 2005, at 7:37 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>
>> . . . you have junk from an early version of py2app.
>
> Thanks, as always.
>
> Working on a setup.py file again, I'm realizing I need to know more 
> (surprise!). But where to look? I've read through the Distutils doc 
> since that seems like essential background. And I've read the bit I 
> get with help(py2app) in an interactive Python window. But I'm still 
> not intelligently reading the sample setup.py files in examples etc. I 
> need to know more about plists, for one thing -- is there a good 
> little intro on them? Or am I wrong to emphasize them? My goal is to 
> make setup.py files that will work for both py2app and py2exe, since I 
> have to build Windows executables for some of my colleagues.

"help(py2app)" is probably pretty useless, you want "python setup.py 
py2app --help"

> And here's a *really* simple thing I don't understand: I've got a data 
> file I need to include in my app. I know how to specify it on the 
> py2app command line (python setup.py py2app --resources mydatafile) -- 
> but where do I put it in the setup.py file? (I want it to get included 
> in a py2exe build, too.)

Add it to data_files in the setup(....).. both py2app and py2exe should 
understand that.

setup(
	app = [....],
	data_files = [myfile],
)

It would probably be helpful to look around in the py2app examples.

-bob