Arne Babenhauserheide (http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pythonmac-sig/2008-May/020023.html) wrote: >The use of py2app on GNU/Linux is, that I want to distribute apps to non-linux >users, but I don't have MacOSX running anywhere near. > >I develop on my Gentoo Box, and I want to be able to create programs for >friends of mine who use MacOSX. > >Python is cross platform, but to really use that advantage, I need to be able >to distribute Python programs for individual platforms easily. > >And I want to enable other Linux users to do the same.
Kevin Walzer (http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pythonmac-sig/2008-May/020024.html) wrote: >If you want to distribute standalone apps with the Python interpreter >embedded, that can't be done in a cross-platform manner. A Python binary >built on Linux won't run on OS X. Ronald Oussoren (http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pythonmac-sig/2008-May/020046.html) wrote: >It should in theory be possible to enhance py2app to support this. The >Carbon.File dependency is only needed for alias builds, and those are >only useful during development anyway. > >I'd be surprised if this works out of the box though, first of all >distutils isn't very well suited to cross-compilation anyway and >py2app probably has hardcoded locations that won't exist on you're >Gentoo box. > >And as a final observation: distributing builds without testing is >wishful thinking. It would be much more worthwhile to ask one of >you're friends if you can use their system to do the initial debugging >on MacOSX and afterwards ask them to build the MacOSX binaries for you. I develop a standalone cross-platform python/wxpython app on linux and I have exactly the same concern (on ubuntu). I would make sure that there is no simple solution to use py2app on linux to build the comprehensive bundle (with a python interpreter and wxpython in it) that I can send to mac os x users. I planned to use one (not two) mac to test the bundle anyway and I could use it to run py2app. My concern is that I need to test the bundle on this mac afterwards and I am afraid that my (wx)python installs will false the test. Then my question: what is the best way to install python and test afterwards ? different users, uninstall everything ... how ? Thx in advance for your ideas, suggestions ... KB _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
