[Pythonmac-SIG] py2app and bdist_mpkg on Linux?

[Arne Babenhauserheide]

Hi Ronald, 

Thanks for your answer! 

El Tuesday, 13 de May de 2008 15:22:13 escribió:
> plistlib is a mac-specific library, it will be added to the general
> stdlib in python 2.6.

And it works under GNU/Linux (I tried installing it by hand). 

> > * Carbon.File isn't avaible in my Python either.
>
> That's mac specific and will stay that way.

Is it essential in py2app? 

> > I'd be very thankful for help in getting it to work (and I'll try to
> > contribute the findings at least into Gentoo, so other Gentoo users
> > can use
> > py2app and bdist_mpkg, too).
>
> I don't understand why you want that. You do know that both provide
> mac-specific functionality?

Yes. Functionality for Mac users which might want to use my programs :) 

> bdist_mpkg cannot work on platforms other than OSX because it uses a
> utility from Apple to build that BOM (kind of an index) for the
> package, that tool is only available on OSX and the fileformat of the
> BOM is not documented.

That's sad... how about py2app? 

Best wishes, 
Arne
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