Charles Hartman wrote:
I may be wrong,
but I think there are a whole lot of people like me, and in some sense
we're an important part of the Python and Mac user base.
Maybe. I've been watching the community for a long time now, and I've
observed two things:
1) there are a LOT more people running Python on the Mac than there were
a few years ago.
2) There is less interest/involvement with mac-specific issues.
This is a bit of a paradox, but I think these explain it:
a) With OS-X, the Mac is far more like a *nix box for development
purposes -- there just isn't as much need for mac-specific stuff. Even
more so with macports and fink.
b) With the greater use comes greater support -- more packages are being
pre-built for the mac by their maintainers, rather than by the
python-mac community (unfortunately, not always is a robust way!)
c) People are doing more and more web development -- and in that case,
the Mac really is just like any other unix box.
All these lead to less involvement in things like Py2app, and bdist_mpkg.
It's open-source, it's only going to get done if someone that needs it
rolls up his/her sleeves and does it -- which may mean learning more
about the nitty gritty details of OS-X.
My suggestion to Charles, and Kevin, (and me!) is to try to find some
time to dig into py2app -- I think once you grok the code structure, you
can probably find the source of the errors, and then, if you can't
figure out a solution, Ronald or Ned (or??) might be able to help out,
without them having to do all the work -- i.e. use the experts only for
the part where their expertise is critical.
Oh, and writing some tests may be a good start!
-Chris
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