Phillip J. Eby wrote: > At 11:10 AM 9/15/2005 -0700, Robert Kern wrote: > >>I have a feeling that there isn't a pressing need to be able to install >>.app bundles from easy_install. If the package maintainer is going to go >>to the trouble of writing a setup.py that can be used with py2app, he'll >>almost certainly actually build the .app binary and distribute it. Since >>they're standalone, they don't really interact with the other installed >>packages. > > If you can run a wx or tkinter (or other cross-platform GUI) app on Mac OS > without needing anything special, but users would prefer to have the .app, > it would probably be a good idea to have it, even if the original developer > hasn't targeted that platform specifically. For example, packages like > idle or the pydoc tkinter GUI would seem to merit something like this.
Oh, certainly it would be nice. But AFAICT, you really do have to write a setup.py specifically for py2app. The information you need isn't something you can simply divine from a generic setup.py . -- Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] "In the fields of hell where the grass grows high Are the graves of dreams allowed to die." -- Richard Harter _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
