On 8 Jun, 2011, at 15:15, Christopher Barker wrote: > Ronald Oussoren wrote: >>>> That should be "is really *NOT* expected to work right...". :) > >> And that's wrong. Py2app should work just fine with Apple's python, >> and then creates a semi-standalone app bundle that doesn't include >> Python itself. The advantage is a smaller application bundle, the >> disadvantage is that you must run it on the same OSX release as you >> built it on (or a newer one, AFAIK the result of building on 10.5 can >> run on 10.6) > > OK -- I've always know that that was supposed to be the case, and a py2app'd > bundle should certainly work on the machine it was built on anyway. > > However, if I recall correctly, there have been issues for years with not > just the core Python distribution not being included, but things getting ugly > with installed add on packages not getting included either (or not properly). > So I've always stayed away from trying, and encouraged others to do the same. > That experience may be the result of bugs that no longer exist. > > > OTOH, if, indeed, using the system python results in a smaller bundle that > works just fine on all versions of OS-X >= to the one it was built on -- that > could be really nice and useful.
That's the intention, but there may still be bugs as py2app still has fairly minimal test coverage and I don't use the system python for my day-to-day work. I'm adding new tests with every bugfix, but that's not good enough to get proper test coverage in a reasonable timeframe. Ronald
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