On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Christopher Barker <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote:
> > > Do I need/want to use py2app to distribute my app(s)? >>> >> >> Never happens. >> > > fair enough. > But this is where Bill J's use-case departs drastically from those of many users, perhaps most, and certainly the majority of those who need any help. If you think of Python as yet another handy scripting language, easier to use than Perl, etc., then you don't care about making apps -- and 60% of the questions that come to this site are irrelevant, because you're somebody who already lives inside Darwin/Unix/whatever. But there are a lot of people who do programming just in order to make user applications, not to tweak systems from half-inside. Many of them want to make cross-platform programs (which scripting geeks never do). Many of them -- me for a ready example -- know barely enough about bash to get things installed properly. More to the point: *all* of them, if they want to use Python (because they're sensible people) on the Mac (because they're sensible people) need to use py2app. Despite what's sometimes implied here, py2app is not a frill. From my point of view, it's essential to the Python community on Mac -- perhaps a minority point of view, but representing a minority that I suggest is crucial to the future of Python and the Mac. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Charles O. Hartman Poet in Residence Professor, Chair, Department of Literatures in English oak.conncoll.edu/cohar
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