[Pythonmac-SIG] How to create a desktop alias to run a python file?

[Christopher Barker]

Ronald Oussoren wrote:
> You mean like "py2app --semi-standalone --site-packages"? This does 
> require adding everything you don't want to be copied from site-packages 
> to "--excludes" which is less than ideal.

Exactly. Though I had forgotten about --semi-standalone, thanks for the 
reminder. And it does have the advantage that you are being explicit 
about what you are expecting the system to have installed.

 > I wouldn't mind adding a
> "--system-dependent-applet" option to py2app that builds an "applet" 
> when that would help making py2app the obvious application bundle for 
> everyone. I won't be writing the required code any time soon, but if 
> someone does do the legwork I can look at the patch and apply it.

Thanks. I don't have much time, and I don't even know where to start, 
but maybe some day...

> I think this would be useful for inhouse applications where you have ful 
> control over the system environment

Exactly.

> Adding full support for python eggs would go a long way of fixing that 
> problem. That is, py2app could force loading of specific versions of 
> python eggs to load code from site-packages instead of using whatever 
> happens to be on the default search path.

That would be nice.

>> Is the old "build applet" working well with Python2.5, etc?
> 
> Yes, but I'd like to get rid of it in favor of py2app.

I agree. One stop shopping.

-Chris


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