Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] StuffIt 10 can corrupt applications packaged with py2app

2007-04-26 Thread Jack Jansen
On 25-apr-2007, at 20:52, Bill Janssen wrote: >> Christopher Barker wrote: >> >>> 1) is there a point-and-click and/or drag-and-drop way to create >>> *.dmgs? >> >> There are lots of freeware and shareware apps that do this-- >> FreeDMG is a >> good one. There are also command-line wrappers fo

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] StuffIt 10 can corrupt applications packaged with py2app

2007-04-25 Thread Daniel Lord
Shell script, Schmell script...do it in Python: I got this from someone somewhere long ago... import sys, os, os.path import commands if len(sys.argv) == 2: dir = sys.argv[1] print "Creating disk image %s.dmg" % (dir) status, output = commands.getstatusoutput("hdiutil create - v

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] StuffIt 10 can corrupt applications packaged with py2app

2007-04-25 Thread Ronald Oussoren
On 25 Apr, 2007, at 18:56, Christopher Barker wrote: Brian Christensen wrote: I finally found a user (Michael) who had both the problem and the technical skills to track down the cause. Wow! thanks for reporting this! If a *.dmg is a better bet, then: 1) is there a point-and-click and/or

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] StuffIt 10 can corrupt applications packaged with py2app

2007-04-25 Thread Ned Deily
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christopher Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If a *.dmg is a better bet, then: > 1) is there a point-and-click and/or drag-and-drop way to create *.dmgs? Lots of ways. In 10.4 at least, move the files to be distributed into a folder with the name of the volume

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] StuffIt 10 can corrupt applications packaged with py2app

2007-04-25 Thread Bill Janssen
> Christopher Barker wrote: > > > 1) is there a point-and-click and/or drag-and-drop way to create *.dmgs? > > There are lots of freeware and shareware apps that do this--FreeDMG is a > good one. There are also command-line wrappers for hdiutils. Just google. I don't know about point and click,

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] StuffIt 10 can corrupt applications packaged with py2app

2007-04-25 Thread Kevin Walzer
Christopher Barker wrote: > 1) is there a point-and-click and/or drag-and-drop way to create *.dmgs? There are lots of freeware and shareware apps that do this--FreeDMG is a good one. There are also command-line wrappers for hdiutils. Just google. -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.code

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] StuffIt 10 can corrupt applications packaged with py2app

2007-04-25 Thread Christopher Barker
Brian Christensen wrote: > I finally found a user (Michael) who had both the problem and the > technical skills to track down the cause. Wow! thanks for reporting this! If a *.dmg is a better bet, then: 1) is there a point-and-click and/or drag-and-drop way to create *.dmgs? 2) I don't think

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] StuffIt 10 can corrupt applications packaged with py2app

2007-04-25 Thread Bill Janssen
> It's a preference. In Stuffit Expander it's called "Continue to > expand if possible", in the full stuffit it's probably something > similar. > It's on by default, it's what makes stuffit do the full decoding and > unpacking of, say, a .tar.gz. Thanks; I've been wondering what to turn off

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] StuffIt 10 can corrupt applications packaged with py2app

2007-04-25 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
2007/4/25, Bob Ippolito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I've had other strange problems with StuffIt's zip support that aren't directly relevant to py2app. For example I have a folder full of a bunch of text files (ActionScript source code) and if I zip it with BOMArchiveHelper, Python, *or* the zip comman

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] StuffIt 10 can corrupt applications packaged with py2app

2007-04-25 Thread Bob Ippolito
On 4/25/07, Ronald Oussoren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday, April 25, 2007, at 10:02AM, "Jack Jansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > >On 25-apr-2007, at 7:50, Ronald Oussoren wrote: > > > >> > >> On 24 Apr, 2007, at 5:45, Brian Christensen wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> Following up on t

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] StuffIt 10 can corrupt applications packaged with py2app

2007-04-25 Thread Ronald Oussoren
On Wednesday, April 25, 2007, at 10:02AM, "Jack Jansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On 25-apr-2007, at 7:50, Ronald Oussoren wrote: > >> >> On 24 Apr, 2007, at 5:45, Brian Christensen wrote: >> >>> >>> Following up on this lead we found that there is a problem with >>> StuffIt 10. My applicati

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] StuffIt 10 can corrupt applications packaged with py2app

2007-04-25 Thread Jack Jansen
On 25-apr-2007, at 7:50, Ronald Oussoren wrote: > > On 24 Apr, 2007, at 5:45, Brian Christensen wrote: > >> >> Following up on this lead we found that there is a problem with >> StuffIt 10. My application was distributed as a zip file so the user >> used StuffIt to unzip the file. It turns out th

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] StuffIt 10 can corrupt applications packaged with py2app

2007-04-24 Thread Ronald Oussoren
On 24 Apr, 2007, at 5:45, Brian Christensen wrote: Following up on this lead we found that there is a problem with StuffIt 10. My application was distributed as a zip file so the user used StuffIt to unzip the file. It turns out that StuffIt was unzipping and deleting the site-packages.zip ins

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] StuffIt 10 can corrupt applications packaged with py2app

2007-04-24 Thread Kevin Walzer
You could use a DMG instead of a zip file. That's more standard anyway. Also, have you tried unzipping the file with BOMarchive helper (the built-in unzipping tool that works with Finder)? If that works without corrupting your file, then you could just recommend that folks use that instead of

[Pythonmac-SIG] StuffIt 10 can corrupt applications packaged with py2app

2007-04-24 Thread Brian Christensen
I have been distributing a mac application built with py2app. For months I have received reports of users who were not able to use the application because of the error "ImportError: No module named os". I was not able to reproduce the error and was unable to help them, except to suggest th