[Pythonmac-SIG] py2app standalone options

2004-12-16 Thread has
Hi, One for Bob really, but I'm trying to figure out how to build a non-standalone app using py2app. This was easy (albeit clumsy) with bundlebuilder - just set both 'standalone' and 'semi-standalone' options to False. I see a 'semi-standalone' option in py2app, but that still includes a big wa

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] py2app standalone options

2004-12-16 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Dec 16, 2004, at 2:14 PM, has wrote: Bob wrote: [py2app] still does the dependency scan for third party python code and dependent libraries/frameworks. If you want to depend on third party stuff in site-packages, too bad, you'll have to exclude them all individually and use --site-packages.

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] py2app standalone options

2004-12-16 Thread has
Bob wrote: [py2app] still does the dependency scan for third party python code and dependent libraries/frameworks. If you want to depend on third party stuff in site-packages, too bad, you'll have to exclude them all individually and use --site-packages. Why? Because I don't care about your use

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] py2app standalone options

2004-12-16 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Dec 16, 2004, at 2:35 PM, Chris Barker wrote: Bob Ippolito wrote: The way to tell it to include nothing is to build an alias bundle (-A), which is for development only and doesn't create something suitable for redistribution. Can you tell us more about what an Alias bundle is? Is like the old

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] py2app standalone options

2004-12-16 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Dec 16, 2004, at 2:40 PM, has wrote: Bob wrote: [py2app] still does the dependency scan for third party python code and dependent libraries/frameworks. If you want to depend on third party stuff in site-packages, too bad, you'll have to exclude them all individually and use --site-packages.

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] py2app standalone options

2004-12-16 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Dec 16, 2004, at 3:07 PM, Chris Barker wrote: Bob Ippolito wrote: Rare enough that I can't justify writing the code and adding yet another option. That, of course, is your judgment. However, I'm not sure it's a rare as you think. I, for one, want to be able to distribute apps to folks whose e

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] py2app standalone options

2004-12-16 Thread Chris Barker
Bob Ippolito wrote: Rare enough that I can't justify writing the code and adding yet another option. That, of course, is your judgment. However, I'm not sure it's a rare as you think. I, for one, want to be able to distribute apps to folks whose environment I have control over, so I know that th

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] py2app standalone options

2004-12-16 Thread has
Bob wrote: Because I don't care about your use case. It's rare and is very often not what people want. How rare? Rare enough that I can't justify writing the code and adding yet another option. If you don't need a redistributable application, then use an alias bundle. If you want a redistrib

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] py2app standalone options

2004-12-16 Thread has
Bob wrote: Adding this option causes more problems than it solves. Such as? Feel free to do it yourself, either by subclassing py2app (then using the cmdclass argument to setup(...)), or by writing a patch against py2app that makes this option available. Aye well, I'm not really up to digesting

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] py2app standalone options

2004-12-16 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Dec 16, 2004, at 11:47 AM, has wrote: One for Bob really, but I'm trying to figure out how to build a non-standalone app using py2app. This was easy (albeit clumsy) with bundlebuilder - just set both 'standalone' and 'semi-standalone' options to False. I see a 'semi-standalone' option in py2a

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] py2app standalone options

2004-12-16 Thread has
Bob wrote: [py2app] still does the dependency scan for third party python code and dependent libraries/frameworks. If you want to depend on third party stuff in site-packages, too bad, you'll have to exclude them all individually and use --site-packages. Why? has -- http://freespace.virgin.net/

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] py2app standalone options

2004-12-16 Thread Chris Barker
Bob Ippolito wrote: The way to tell it to include nothing is to build an alias bundle (-A), which is for development only and doesn't create something suitable for redistribution. Can you tell us more about what an Alias bundle is? Is like the old MacPython applet? What I would like is a bundl

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] py2app standalone options

2004-12-16 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Dec 16, 2004, at 6:00 PM, has wrote: Bob wrote: Because I don't care about your use case. It's rare and is very often not what people want. How rare? Rare enough that I can't justify writing the code and adding yet another option. If you don't need a redistributable application, then use an