Hi, I am about to try making a new Mac installer for SOFA Statistics (http://www.sofastatistics.com/home.php). SOFA is open source (190K downloads) and written in Python 2.7. My old tool-chain can't cope with some of the new libraries SOFA depends on - especially around image processing - so I am working out a new process.
The installer is being built on Snow Leopard (inside VirtualBox) and I have decided to drop py2app and use pyinstaller instead because of its more active community. Based on past experience I am expecting the main pain points to be the homebrew-installed libraries ( and imagemagick's convert program. IIRC one of the key challenges is getting imagemagick to detect the location of ghostscript correctly. I may even need to compile my own version of imagemagick to make packaging successful. Any words of advice before I start the process? One of the main things I'm lacking is a decent mental model of what the packaging actually does. My background is Sociology not computer science ;-). If anyone wants to go further in supporting the SOFA project by providing more focused support that would be great though I appreciate everyone is busy on their own projects. Just thought I'd mention it in case anyone was looking for a project to get involved in. All the best, Grant Creator SOFA Statistics -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PyInstaller" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pyinstaller. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
