[Pythonmac-SIG] Trouble with py2app not building standalone on 10.5 Leopard

[Kevin Walzer]

Derrick Hendricks wrote:

> I am trying to package a piece of software into a completely stand alone app
> so I can distribute it to other mac users.  Currently, I'm using
> 10.5Leopard and am not having much luck.  When creating this app, the
> python
> that gets added to the Contents/MacOS is a link to:
> /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/Resources/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python
> 
> 
> While this will work for just about all stock 10.5 computers, this will not
> work for anything that doesn't have python 2.5 installed, and I need to
> package this for 10.3 and 10.4  for both PPC and i386 also, and these
> machines do not have python 2.5 unless they were added later.
> 
>

py2app doesn't bundle the Python installed with OS X in /System--that's 
by design. Technically, you really can't redistribute Apple bits. 
Besides, there's no way that the Apple-installed Python on 10.5 will run 
on an earlier version of the OS.

To get a truly standalone app bundle with py2app, you'll have to use a 
separate build of Python, and wrap that. You can get this from 
python.org. I think that build supports 10.3 and up (someone correct me 
if I'm wrong).

-- 
Kevin Walzer
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