[Pythonmac-SIG] py2app vs PyObjCTools

[Aahz]

On Mon, Aug 03, 2009, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
> Am 2009-08-03 um 18:23 schrieb Aahz:
>>
>> I'm using py2app 0.3.6 with PyObjC 2.2b2, and py2app is refusing to
>> copy
>> pyobjc_framework_Cocoa-2.2b2-py2.6-macosx-10.3-fat.egg/PyObjCTools/NibClassBuilder
>> into site-packages.zip.  The weird thing is that I *do* get
>> PyObjCTools/__init__.pyo, but none of the other files in the package.
>> I've tried setting both 'packages' and 'includes' in setup.py, but
>> it's not working.  Suggestions?
>
> py2app can't handle zipped eggs. Install your eggs with "easy_install - 
> Z" (or "pip unzip").

That's a fair question -- I've run into that before and I've made sure
all packages are unzipped.

My suspicion at this point is that py2app can't deal with distributed
eggs.  That is, three PyObjC eggs contain part of PyObjCTools:

aahz Python/2.6/site-packages: find . -name PyObjCTools
./pyobjc_core-2.2b2-py2.6-macosx-10.3-fat.egg/PyObjCTools
./pyobjc_framework_Cocoa-2.2b2-py2.6-macosx-10.3-fat.egg/PyObjCTools
./pyobjc_framework_ExceptionHandling-2.2b2-py2.6.egg/PyObjCTools

Should I just merge them all into a single egg, maybe?
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