Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] [Pyobjc-dev] [ANN] py2app 0.3.2

2006-09-01 Thread Kaweh Kazemi
thanks bob, ronald. updated/corrected the wiki. On 23.07.2006, at 19:30, Bob Ippolito wrote: > > On Jul 23, 2006, at 12:33 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote: > >> >> On Jul 22, 2006, at 11:36 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote: >> >> >>> >>> The "loader problem" documented in that wiki isn't a Mac OS X >>> problem

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] [Pyobjc-dev] [ANN] py2app 0.3.2

2006-09-01 Thread Kaweh Kazemi
thanks bob, ronald. updated/corrected the wiki. On 23.07.2006, at 19:30, Bob Ippolito wrote: > > On Jul 23, 2006, at 12:33 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote: > >> >> On Jul 22, 2006, at 11:36 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote: >> >> >>> >>> The "loader problem" documented in that wiki isn't a Mac OS X >>> problem

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] [Pyobjc-dev] [ANN] py2app 0.3.2

2006-07-25 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Jul 24, 2006, at 4:41 PM, Christopher Barker wrote: When a script is installed somewhere central, like /usr/local/bin, that's really all that makes sense. >>> >>> That's clearly irrelevant, because people aren't going to be double- >>> clicking on files that you have to do "magic inc

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] [Pyobjc-dev] [ANN] py2app 0.3.2

2006-07-24 Thread Bill Northcott
On 25/07/2006, at 6:20 AM, Christopher Barker wrote: >> Setting the working directory to the directory containing the >> script would be more useful. It really is a bad idea to write into software directories of any sort. They should be able to be write protected for security. > > I'm not s

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] [Pyobjc-dev] [ANN] py2app 0.3.2

2006-07-24 Thread Christopher Barker
>>> When a script is installed somewhere central, like /usr/local/bin, >>> that's really all that makes sense. >> >> That's clearly irrelevant, because people aren't going to be double- >> clicking on files that you have to do "magic incantations" to even >> see from Finder. Fair enough, but what

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] [Pyobjc-dev] [ANN] py2app 0.3.2

2006-07-24 Thread Ronald Oussoren
On Jul 24, 2006, at 8:52 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote: > > On Jul 24, 2006, at 11:17 AM, Christopher Barker wrote: > >> Ronald Oussoren wrote: >>> Why's that? The directory that contains the script is a lot more >>> useful >>> for most scripts. >> Bob Ippolito wrote: >>> No, it's not. There are approxi

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] [Pyobjc-dev] [ANN] py2app 0.3.2

2006-07-24 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Jul 24, 2006, at 11:17 AM, Christopher Barker wrote: > Ronald Oussoren wrote: >> Why's that? The directory that contains the script is a lot more >> useful >> for most scripts. > Bob Ippolito wrote: >> No, it's not. There are approximately zero scripts that expect this >> behavior. > > Most

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] [Pyobjc-dev] [ANN] py2app 0.3.2

2006-07-24 Thread Christopher Barker
Ronald Oussoren wrote: > Why's that? The directory that contains the script is a lot more useful > for most scripts. Bob Ippolito wrote: > No, it's not. There are approximately zero scripts that expect this > behavior. Most "scripts" I've ever used are used from the command line, and the worki

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] [Pyobjc-dev] [ANN] py2app 0.3.2

2006-07-24 Thread Ronald Oussoren
On Jul 24, 2006, at 6:31 PM, Christopher Barker wrote: > Ronald Oussoren wrote: >> Setting the working directory to the directory containing the script >> would be more useful. > > I'm not so sure. That's a bad habit from the old MacOS and Windows. > $HOME is an excellent choice for the default w

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] [Pyobjc-dev] [ANN] py2app 0.3.2

2006-07-24 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Jul 24, 2006, at 9:31 AM, Christopher Barker wrote: > Ronald Oussoren wrote: >> Setting the working directory to the directory containing the script >> would be more useful. > > I'm not so sure. That's a bad habit from the old MacOS and Windows. > $HOME is an excellent choice for the default w

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] [Pyobjc-dev] [ANN] py2app 0.3.2

2006-07-24 Thread Christopher Barker
Ronald Oussoren wrote: > Setting the working directory to the directory containing the script > would be more useful. I'm not so sure. That's a bad habit from the old MacOS and Windows. $HOME is an excellent choice for the default working directory. It might make sense to add the directory con

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] [Pyobjc-dev] [ANN] py2app 0.3.2

2006-07-23 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Jul 23, 2006, at 12:33 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote: > > On Jul 22, 2006, at 11:36 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote: > > >> >> The "loader problem" documented in that wiki isn't a Mac OS X problem >> per se, it's just what PythonLauncher does. It launches scripts with >> a path of $HOME. Pretty stupid, but

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] [Pyobjc-dev] [ANN] py2app 0.3.2

2006-07-23 Thread Ronald Oussoren
On Jul 22, 2006, at 11:36 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote: > > The "loader problem" documented in that wiki isn't a Mac OS X problem > per se, it's just what PythonLauncher does. It launches scripts with > a path of $HOME. Pretty stupid, but that's what it does. It's only > relevant if you're double-clic