[Pythonmac-SIG] modifying setup.py: py2exe -> py2app

[Charles Hartman]

On Feb 1, 2005, at 9:53 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:

> The list of options py2app will accept is shown when you do "python 
> setup.py py2app --help".  These can be converted into setup.py speak 
> by replacing the hyphens with underscores and passing them to setup() 
> in an options dictionary (many of the examples do this).

I'm in the same boat with C. Jerdonek, though I suspect I know less. So 
when I saw this passage, I hung, as always, on every word from py2app's 
own master. Aha! I said.

And I do find that syntax in two places: the setup.py files for 
PyTestPlugin and wxGlade each have two *nested* dictionaries, which I 
understand *almost* well enough to use it. Two others (TinyTinyEdit and 
aliens) have a simple dict that maps a script to a plist. And the 
setup.py for superdoodle is one I really want to understand and can't 
quite:
		setup(
			name="superdoodle",
			**{buildstyle : ['superdoodle.py']}
		)
where buildstyle has been set according to platform.

But I for one am still having trouble duplicating and extending this 
syntax for my own files. (Nothing in the Distutils docs on any of this, 
of course.) I think this is where some of us need a fill-in-the-gap 
tutorial. Any mercy welcome.

Charles Hartman

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