At 9:26 PM +0200 2006-06-07, Ronald Oussoren wrote: >On 7-jun-2006, at 18:24, Russell E. Owen wrote: > >> >>>... >>>What shortcut links? Py2app special-cases the python framework because we >>>know how it is structured and know what parts must be copied into the >>>application to get a working bundle. >> >>For Tcl/Tk, one may put extension libraries (such as snack) into: >>.../Contents/Framework/Tcl.Framework/Resources >>That works because Resources is a link. The full path (without links) is: >>.../Contents/Framework/Tcl/Framework/Versions/8.4/Resources >> >>which would you rather use, especially since the version number may >>change?!!! >> >>Unfortunately one cannot play a similar trick with python. The main >>installation of python has various useful shortcut links, but py2app >>doesn't copy them. > >That's because the running application doesn't actually need the >link. The easiest way out of this would be to check if a latest >version of matplotlib behaves more sensibly, if it does we don't >have to look for other ways to get this to work. Either way a recipe >would be the best way to solve this: get this into py2app and no >other user of matplotlib has to worry about this in the future.
I agree. >...Do you have a python application that uses additional tcl/tk >files? If so it might be worthwhile to teach py2app about this, that >is an additional option to the 'py2app' distutils command that can >be used to specify the Tcl/Tk extensions that should be copied into >the framework. Bob has the last word on this of course, but I >wouldn't mind if such functionality would get into py2app (and >especially if I don't have to do the work ;-)) Yes indeed. It uses the snack sound library (I wish there was a cross-platform python sound library I could use instead). But I'm sure other users of Tkinter have other extensions they like. >What is required to add Tcl/Tk extensions to the application bundle? Tcl additions are found in /Library/Tcl/ and are often folders of files. These need to be copied to: .../Contents/Frameworks/Tcl.framework/Resources I found it by asking tcl for the relevant path. As I recall, tcl only looks in one directory for extensions (though I hope I'm wrong; that seems hard to believe). I certainly tried to find a more convenient location, but no luck so far. As I mentioned before, if one uses the dataFiles argument, then one must not specify the final destination, as this messes up copying of Tcl.framework (due to a directory being created that should be a link). Instead, I first copy the files to a simple location and then move it. That issue *might* be avoided by specifying the full non-linked path to the destination, e.g.: .../Contents/Frameworks/Tcl/framework/Versions/8.4/Resources but that sounds painful. So built-in support would certainly be more convenient! -- Russell _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
