[Pythonmac-SIG] py2app and dependencies

[Paul McNett]

Ryan Govostes wrote:
> I'm having some trouble with py2app messing up package dependencies. I 
> built py2app from SVN HEAD a few days ago because the version 
> distributed with Apple's Python 2.5 did not appear to support egg 
> dependencies.
> 
> 1. It is failing to find the text_format module of Google's protobuf 
> package, despite the fact that it is explicitly imported from 
> google.protobuf.message:
> 
>> from google.protobuf import text_format
> 
> 2. Another package is not explicitly imported, so I think I have to 
> specify it as a dependency. However, if I add it to the "packages" list, 
> I get an error
> 
>> ImportError: No module named xyzzy
>> > 
>> /Users/ryan/trunk/build/bdist.macosx-10.5-i386/egg/modulegraph/util.py(13)imp_find_module() 
>>
> 
> This is despite the fact that I can import the package with Python 
> interactively.
> 
> It also fails if I try making a recipe.
> 
> 
> Is there a way to tell py2app what to include explicitly in these cases? 
> Or should I do some post-build surgery on the resultant .app?

Experiment with making a main.py file whose dual purpose in life is to 
bootstrap your real_main.py file to start your app, and to explicitly 
import things to make py2app's job easier.

Or, I've had good luck with some packages to put them in "includes" 
instead.

Paul