On 26 Oct, 2011, at 20:46, Chris.Barker wrote: > On 10/23/11 10:52 PM, Ronald Oussoren wrote: >>>> The "proper" solution is to teach py2app how to copy eggs with their >>>> metadata and resources into the >>>> application bundle. >>> >>> That would be nice, but I don't know that it's really the "best" solution. >> >> Eggs exist and py2app should support them, otherwise people have to resort >> to ugly workarounds like copying files manually. Adding an option for >> copying a set of eggs into the application bundle would be fairly easy. > > I wasn't clear -- I agree that copying the egg into the bundle is the best > solution for py2app itself. > > I was arguing that it would be better to not use setuptools features in that > way at all -- but if they're used, it's nice for py2app to support them. > > >>> AS for resources, personally I like to use python files for data -- and >>> then "import" to get it - this makes for nice, clean integeration with >>> py2app, etc. >> >> I use python files for resources on Windows to get single-file executables >> with py2exe, but prefer to use real data files on OSX for easier maintenance. > > I guess what I think causes difficulties is data files required by a > third-party package, rather than the one my app uses -- I don't have any > issue with data files for my app -- it's the ones in third party packages > that you then need to install properly with py2app or py2exe -- that's a pain.
That's one thing that setuptools tries to solve: the egg should contain all data and pkg_resources provides an API to get at the data without having to assume that they are at a fixed location in the filesystem. In theory this means py2app can stuff all code into the site-packages.zip file while storing resources as files without breaking application code. That would likely break existing code though. Distutils2/packaging has a simular (but different) solution to the same problem. Ronald > > -CHB > > > > -- > Christopher Barker, Ph.D. > Oceanographer > > Emergency Response Division > NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice > 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax > Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception > > chris.bar...@noaa.gov > _______________________________________________ > Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig > unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/Pythonmac-SIG
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