[Pythonmac-SIG] Building plugins with py2app

[Dethe Elza]

On 15-Oct-06, at 9:26 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote:

> I've done a clean install of python, py2app, PyObjC and related  
> packages and can now reproduce your problem.

Thanks so much!

> I hope I've also fixed the problem in revision 47 of py2app.  It  
> turns out the app stub and bundle stub use a slightly different way  
> to setup the python environment, which means the right python path  
> must be set in the Info.plist for plugins but not for applications.

That did it, it's working beautifully now.

> Setting up the right environment for plugins is also very hard, if  
> not impossible to do completely correct: cpython just isn't  
> designed for having several completely seperate interpreters in one  
> application (and no, Py_NewInterpreter/Py_EndInterpreter don't  
> count). Different plugin bundles with py2app will share part of the  
> environment, such as having a shared sys.path.

So does that mean that I shouldn't run two Python plugins in the same  
program, or that I need to be careful that they have the same  
dependencies, or that the first contains all the dependencies of  
subsequent plugins, or what?  I'm just trying to understand here.

> Ronald

Thanks again for taking the time to fix this.

--Dethe

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