[Pythonmac-SIG] Why Do I Explicitly Need MacPython

[Bob Ippolito]

On 9/22/06, Russell E. Owen <rowen at cesmail.net> wrote:
> 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).

No, there isn't, and I'd rather not have one.

I prefer zip because it can be processed without proprietary tools. If
I really needed to get at the contents of a package from a BSD box I
could unzip it and then pax out the files. If it was in a DMG I'd be
screwed.

-bob