[Pythonmac-SIG] Zope py2app, some progress

[Bob Ippolito]

On Feb 3, 2005, at 19:58, Richard Jones wrote:

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> On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 01:34 am, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>> No, py2app just doesn't give you a regular Python interpreter.. so,
>> that's a problem I guess.  I'm not sure what to suggest.
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> Yep, looks like it's the killer for the py2app'ed Zope.
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> I'm going to investigate another approach of using os.system() to 
> control
> Zope, but that's not nearly as nice as it doesn't let me at the zdaemon
> control code directly (I'll have to parse shell command output 
> instead) and
> bundle a second Python interpreter with the app.

Well the problem with this is that the Python you bundle probably won't 
have its headers rewritten properly and will potentially link to a 
Python that is outside of the application bundle and just blow up.

I'll see about adding an optional regular Python interpreter to the 
bundle, but that probably won't happen for a few weeks.

-bob