Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] StuffIt 10 can corrupt applications packaged with py2app

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 24 Apr, 2007, at 5:45, Brian Christensen wrote:

Following up on this lead we found that there is a problem with
StuffIt 10. My application was distributed as a zip file so the user
used StuffIt to unzip the file. It turns out that StuffIt was

unzipping and deleting the site-packages.zip inside of the application!

That's very lame behaviour on StufIt's part.

I think we have discovered a bug (? feature?) in Stuffit. I am usng
Stuffit 10. It is set to NOT delete after unzipping, and to
continue unzipping if possible. If I turn off the latter, the
program works after unpacking. When continued unpacking is turned
on, the progam deletes the site-packages.zip file, but not the top
level zip file.

As a partial work around I am not going to use .zip files to
distribute my application. However, if anyone zips and then unzips
the application it will stop working. Has anyone else run into this
problem?

Ronald

I haven't, but I dont' use stuffit either. It should be possibly to patch py2app to work around this issue (basically by adding a check that verifies if site-package.zip exists and if not adds site- packages instead).

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