[Pythonmac-SIG] Upgraded to 2.4 and can't make it work

[Kent Quirk]

We've been building our product using py2app 0.2 on Panther with Apple's
Mac python. That has worked for some time, but as has been pointed out
here many times, relying on that is not the safest way to ship things to
real customers. 

 

The app is large with several C++ extensions using boost::python. We
need to support customers running Panther as well as Tiger, so we're
continuing to build under Panther. 

 

So we've upgraded Panther to MacPython 2.4, and grabbed the appropriate
py2app (py2app-0.2-py2.4-macosx10.3). The application builds, but when
we run it, it dies with "Interpreter not initialized (version
mismatch?)".  This happens the instant we attempt to import our first
extension.

 

We can load our extensions manually by specifying the appropriate DYLD
environment variables and they load properly. The DYLD parameters are
specified in the setup.py (and it all seems to work with the Apple
native python). 

 

We have carefully checked all our dependencies in the xcode build -
we're building everything with the 2.4 python. The .plist file in the
constructed application indicates that we successfully found and built
with the 2.4 python.

 

We've tried changing the symlink at /usr/bin/python to point to 2.4
instead of 2.3, but that didn't fix the problem, so we put it back the
way it was.

 

We tried installing PantherPythonFix (out of desperation) but we didn't
expect it to change anything and it didn't.

 

We build using 

python2.4 setup.py py2app

 

It looks like the executable built into our app (in the Contents/MacOS
folder) is still somehow dependent on the native python, but we can't
figure out what the problem is.

 

Help, please? Any ideas?

 

             Kent

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