[Pythonmac-SIG] I published a couple of improvements to py2app

[Virgil Dupras]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Ronald Oussoren
<ronaldoussoren at mac.com> wrote:
>
> Option to use the built-in modulefinder instead of modulegraph: I was
> getting tired of having to write workaround imports to modulegraph
> (which doesn't like relative imports very well, even the latest
> version) and I didn't want to dig in modulegraph itself, so as an
> experiment, I added a "--use-modulefinder" option to py2app. I haven't
> tested it much, but so far, I'm able to build one of my apps *without*
> the workarounds I had for modulegraph, so it my case, it works better.
>
>
> This won't get merged, I'd much rather fix modulegraph. If that doesn't work
> out for some reason modulegraph should get ripped out, choosing between the
> two is unnecessary complexity for both the maintainers and users of py2app.
> One of the things on my todolist for py2app and related modules is to add
> proper tests, which should make it easier to ensure that bugs get fixed and
> stay fixed.
> And then there are the mac-related bugs in CPython itself, which also need
> my attention.
> Ronald
>

Sure. I didn't implement this in the hope that it was merged, it was
more of a way to experiment how modulegraph and modulefinder compared
when I ran it on my apps.

Virgil