[Pythonmac-SIG] StuffIt 10 can corrupt applications packaged with py2app
Brian Christensen
brianzz at earthlink.net
Tue Apr 24 05:45:07 CEST 2007
I have been distributing a mac application built with py2app. For
months I have received reports of users who were not able to use the
application because of the error "ImportError: No module named os". I
was not able to reproduce the error and was unable to help them,
except to suggest they run the application from the source code.
I finally found a user (Michael) who had both the problem and the
technical skills to track down the cause.
> I think I have cracked the 'no module os' problem with GanttPV.app
> under 10.4.
>
> Assuming that the problem was with the current path, I looked at
> site.py. Now I haven't done any python yet, but it is all pretty
> readable; what I don't know about is the significance of the .pyc
> files - I guess I'll learn. Also, there is an alias in the python >
> folder to the site.py file in the Resources folder, but it doesn't
> seem to have to work ...
>
> Anyway, if you replace the line
> sys.path.append(_parent + '/site-packages.zip')
>
> with the line
> sys.path.append(_parent + '/site-packages')
>
> in site.py in the Resources folder of the Contents folder of the
> GanttPV.app, GanttPV launching works. In my hands.
>
Following up on this lead we found that there is a problem with
StuffIt 10. My application was distributed as a zip file so the user
used StuffIt to unzip the file. It turns out that StuffIt was
unzipping and deleting the site-packages.zip inside of the application!
> I think we have discovered a bug (? feature?) in Stuffit. I am usng
> Stuffit 10. It is set to NOT delete after unzipping, and to
> continue unzipping if possible. If I turn off the latter, the
> program works after unpacking. When continued unpacking is turned
> on, the progam deletes the site-packages.zip file, but not the top
> level zip file.
As a partial work around I am not going to use .zip files to
distribute my application. However, if anyone zips and then unzips
the application it will stop working. Has anyone else run into this
problem?
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