On 24-apr-2006, at 20:31, Christopher Barker wrote: > Hi all, > > Along with the icon discussion (they look great, by the way) There has > been a lot of mention of BuildApplet and Py2Applet, etc. I'm a bit > confused as to what actually exists. This is my understanding -- > someone > please clarify if I'm wrong: > > BuildApplication: Builds a complete *.app bundle, including the > entire > python interpreter, etc. Is is not longer being maintained, and may or > may not work in a given instance.
IIRC it is even worse than that, it may not have been ported from OS9 at all. > > BuildApplet: Builds a *.app bundle that does not include python, and > thus looks and acts like a "real application", but requires a complete > appropriate python installation. Also no longer maintained, and may or > may not work. This builds an application bundle that contains a single python file and depends on the installed python and site-packages to run. > > Oh, and BuildApplication and BuildApplet are not going to be > included in > future versions. I'm entertaining the thought of dropping BuildApplet. But as it solves a real need I might improve it instead (mostly testing and better documentation). Ronald _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
