Hi, I have a question about distributing binary package on OSX (I'm still rather new to OSX but now that I have a Mac I'd like to provide an OSX binary of an Open Source package of mine). I was using the bdist_mpkg distutils extension to create a binary and could turn that into a *.dmg. Testing this installer on my own machine works fine. So generating the binary is no problem at all (thanks to all who contributed to this distutils extension! Great work! I hope this will make it into the official Python build eventually) My question is rather about the requirements of the generated installer, i.e. who can use it to install the package? Does the installer only work with MacPython or will it work with any version of Python (provided that the version number matches, of course)? Does the installer just copy the files into a predefined directory that must be the same on all machines or is it like the Windows installer and it figures out itself where Python is installed and puts the files into the correct location? I'm creating the binary on Tiger. Will the binary work on Leopard as well or does this require a recompile?
Is there anything else that needs to be considered to get a "true" OSX binary package? (I made sure everything was compiled as a universal binary, but that's about it) I'm grateful for any infos on how to properly create a binary package on OSX. Cheers, - Matthias - _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
