[Pythonmac-SIG] Why Do I Explicitly Need MacPython

Russell E. Owen rowen at cesmail.net
Fri Sep 22 20:51:45 CEST 2006


In article 
<6a36e7290609220951w49e14a65oe649214183776d95 at mail.gmail.com>,
 "Bob Ippolito" <bob at redivi.com> wrote:

> On 9/22/06, Christopher Barker <Chris.Barker at noaa.gov> wrote:
> > Simon Brunning wrote:
> > > On 9/22/06, Christopher Barker <Chris.Barker at noaa.gov> wrote:
> > >>  > I can build most of them myself
> > >>
> > >> If you do, please contribute them by sending them to Bob I.
> > >
> > > As in, I can do "setup.py install" and install them for myself. How do
> > > I build a distributable package?
> >
> > Get Py2app, then use:
> >
> > bdist_mpkg
> 
> bdist_mpkg -z will produce a zipped .pkg and save you a step...

Is there a flag that will make a .dmg instead of a .zip? If not, I'd 
like to look into contributing one. (I find dmg convenient because it 
can just be ejected after the installation; it doesn't have to be 
deleted).

-- Russell



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