[Pythonmac-SIG] pyObjC examples pkg
Bob Ippolito
bob at redivi.com
Sat Jul 30 00:17:35 CEST 2005
On Jul 28, 2005, at 6:22 PM, Jerome Lefebvre wrote:
> I just downloaded pyObjC 1.3.7 on a fresh installation of Tiger. I
> ran the mkpg, everything seemed fine but the examples didn't show up
> in a /Developer/Python/ as the docs said and spotlight couldn't find
> anything. So I ran the example pkg on it's own, but still nothing
> appeared. I poked in the info.plist of the example pkg and changed
> IFPkgFlagDefaultLocation from /Volumes/Data/Developer/Python/PyObjC/
> Examples to /Developer/Python/PyObjC/Examples . Ran the example pkg
> and it now the examples were there and they builded/ran fine.
>
> Anybody have an idea of what could have happened here?
bdist_mpkg uses os.path.realpath() to work around some weirdness with
the way that Apple has organized Python and to detect the permissions
it should be using. Unfortunately, Ronald has /Developer as a
symlink to that path instead, so when he built the package bdist_mpkg
decided to put it there.
-bob
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