[Pythonmac-SIG] New to Python - how to get Py2App to work?

[Nehemiah Dacres]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 9:03 PM, Chris Mills <cdm at lizardlounge.com> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I am new to Python, have never developed tools with C++ (I have extensive
> MEL scripting experience with Autodesk's Maya), and am faced with needing to
> develop tools to deploy into a Mac OSX 10.5 environment.
>
> I've downloaded and installed py2app with ez-install and now am faced with
> getting it to work.
>
> I have a simple python script which runs from inside the IDE and does what
> it is supposed to do, but I can not figure out how to get py2app to work.
> I've seen a number of setup.py references about, but what I would really
> like is a step by step procedure for getting a simple "hello world" app to
> be built so that I can have some contextual reference and from there I can
> probably iterate my way to a successful solution.
>
> Is there a basic guide out there? The docs on:
> http://undefined.org/python/py2app.html
> do not make sense to me.
>
> Thanking you in advance for your patience and guidance.
>
> Kind regards,
> Chris Mills
>
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I personally have never used py2app but if I wanted to develope a non GUI
app I would simply investigate distutils. for a gui app I would simply use
platypus <http://www.sveinbjorn.org/platypus> and include what ever
libraries I needed for the gui (unless it was the system's Tkinter)

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