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On Dec 17, 2012, at 9:57 AM, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal <[email protected]> wrote: > On Dec 17, 2012, at 1:34 AM, Ronald Oussoren <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> >> >> You could port bdist_mpkg yourself, doing that should be too hard. That >> said, bdist_mpkg creates an old package format that doesn't support some of >> the more recent features of Installer.app (such as signed packages). >> >> Another alternative is to use the packaging tools provided with Xcode, you >> will have to do more manually but will end up with a "modern" package format. > > Do you think it would be hard to update bdist_mpkg to support the new > format? It is nice to have a simple, pure python, way to build a. Binary installer. > >> binary eggs and those don't require additional tools. Binary eggs do require setup tools or distribute, though that's not too heavy a lift. But setup tools used to get all confused by Universal binaries--has that been fixed? If not, it still may be easier to fix that than do a bdist_mpkg update. Chris >> Ronald >> >>> >>> -- Russell >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Pythonmac-SIG maillist - [email protected] >>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig >>> unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/Pythonmac-SIG >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pythonmac-SIG maillist - [email protected] >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig >> unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/Pythonmac-SIG _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/Pythonmac-SIG
