[Pythonmac-SIG] Building multiple command-line( ( CLI ) programs with py2app

[Bob Ippolito]

On Jan 17, 2006, at 10:11 AM, Christopher Barker wrote:

> Bob Ippolito wrote:
>> What do you want to happen, ideally?  Clearly you don't want 30  
>> CLI  apps with 30 full Python distributions.  There are several   
>> workarounds, but in order to make py2app serve your needs I'm  
>> going  to need to know what that is.
>
> I've thought about this, and I think the solutions proposed will  
> probably work well for the OP. However,  I'd like to have another  
> option. I'd like to be able to install a complete Python  
> distribution that has all the packages my apps need, all in one  
> bundle. Then the individual scripts would use that, rather than the  
> regular installed python. Perhaps you'd have a #! line like:
>
> /usr/bin/env MySpecialPython
...
> Does anyone else think this would be useful?

Not really... this would require an installer, so you might as well  
use a regular Python distro.  There's no way I'm gonna implement it,  
but patches accepted if enough people want it.

-bob