[Pythonmac-SIG] Python development on OSX

[Charles Hartman]

We shouldn't lose sight of the fact that the people we're talking about who
need to build Python programs as apps -- several of whom have responded here
-- don't typically want to confine those apps to the world of Macs.  Python
is a great language in which to build cross-platform (LOTS of platforms)
programs that will look native everywhere and run without any expertise on
the part of end users.  Since that makes an audience at least (at a guess)
20 times as big as the Mac-only audience, and (at a guess) 200 times as big
as the command-line-and-system-tools audience -- and since the future of a
language does depend on the size of its user base and not only on the savvy
and enthusiasm of its most expert users -- it would seem to be short-sighted
for anyone interested in Python on the Mac not to support py2app as fully as
possible.

Charles Hartman
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