I know I'm ignorant, but this seems to me really bizarre. Why would you go through all that? What doesn't wxPython (for example) do, that you need a GUI to do?
Charles On Mar 14, 2006, at 1:00 PM, Bill Janssen wrote: >> Do you really not know about Py2App? It occasionally has some tricky >> bits, and doesn't yet work with the new universal build, but it is >> still >> better than anything else out there for any platform. In fact, >> with my >> limited testing, it has always "just worked" which I can not say >> for py2exe. > > Chris, > > I haven't paid much attention to py2app, but that's because I guessed > it didn't fit my needs. I'm not writing apps in Python because I > don't write Mac-specific code, and therefore need a portable GUI > toolkit, and none of the available-for-Python-on-the-Mac portable GUI > systems are good enough (I have hopes for GTK+ on Cairo, with the > Imendio-sponsored port at > http://developer.imendio.com/wiki/Gtk_Mac_OS_X). My system consists > of a Python daemon which uses PIL, ReportLab, Medusa, and PyLucene, > along with 4 Python command-line programs, along with 2 Mac apps > written in Java as bundled jar files (for Swing). > > When building an installer, I build the Python extensions from source > (using the system Python) and install them under /usr/local/mysys/... > The post-install script in the Mac installer then inserts a .pth file > for my system's extensions in the system Python's site-packages > directory. This allows all the command-line Python scripts to use > them, along with the daemon. > > Can you suggest a better approach? > > Bill > _______________________________________________ > Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
