On 3 Aug, 2010, at 18:24, Christopher Barker wrote: > Ronald Oussoren wrote: >> AFAIK Bob intented py2app to be compatible with py2exe when >> specifying what to build. That won't always work though due >> to differences between the two platforms. > > There are differences that are because of platform. I think datafiles > are handles differently at least. > > If you want to consider those bugs, I could try to dig into some of my > setups and identify the issues I've found -- but that won't be for a > couple weeks at least (vacation!)
This has no hurry, but I at least want to know about differences and document them. And all differences that don't have a good reason should probably be fixed. > > >> It might be useful to think about a cleaner way to specify what to >> build, I don't particularly like the current way and especially not when >> building more complex applications. > > agreed -- though it's no horrible. > >> I totally agree that is would be better to try to get the various >> stand-alone builders to at least share code for the common >> functionality. A common API for the various components would help >> with that, but it would IMHO be better to actually merge the various >> components. > > Me too, but that requires cooperation, which may be hard to come by. I'd > at least contact the ebb-freeze guy (Ralf?) -- he seemed a little > confused about how to share code -- for instance, he said he couldn't > use py2exe's code for including the icon because of licensing, but it > looked like the license was compatible to me. With a little > encouragement, maybe he'd be glad to share more. My first goal is to go through the py2app stack to fix small issues and add proper testing, after that I'm open for cooperation. Ronald
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