On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 9:00 AM, <[email protected]>wrote:
> Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 14:20:55 -0700 > From: James Thiele <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [SEAPY] py2app? > To: A group of Python users in Seattle > <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Sorry to be asking this on the mailing list but bringing new software into > Absolutely no need to apologize IMO - UISM this is one of the main reasons we have this list: precisely so that us pythonistas can help each other out in this way! :-) DG > my life can be a hassle. I don't want to get into an open-ended exercise in > futility. I've spent too much of my life on this kind of thing. > > On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Dan Helfman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 07/10/2010 09:55 AM, James Thiele wrote: > > > >> I'm considering doing a project with py2app. OS X only is OK. Anybody > >> out there got some experience with py2app? > >> > > > > Like py2exe, py2app often has trouble auto-detecting all the necessary > > Python modules to include in your bundle (which is admittedly a difficult > > problem), the error messages can be unclear, and the documentation is > poor. > > But hey, if you get everything working, it means you can distribute your > > Python apps to Mac users without requiring them to install any > dependencies. > > > > Dan > > > > > > -- > Some radio waves were modulated in the creation of this email. > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://lists.seapig.org/pipermail/seattle-python/attachments/20100710/10ce80f4/attachment-0001.htm > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 15:57:10 -0700 > From: Dan Helfman <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [SEAPY] py2app? > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > On 07/10/2010 02:20 PM, James Thiele wrote: > > What I have in mind is dead simple - it would only import one or two > > modules. > > > > If you could tell py2app explicitly what you need I'm down with that. > > > > Sorry to be asking this on the mailing list but bringing new software > > into my life can be a hassle. I don't want to get into an open-ended > > exercise in futility. I've spent too much of my life on this kind of > thing. > > That sounds pretty basic in terms of py2app difficulty. You can manually > specify modules with py2app's "includes" or "packages" options. But I'd > recommend first trying the automatic dependency graph detection to see > whether it actually works for your case. Things typically only get > tricky when you start depending on things like C extensions, > ctypes-based code, etc. > > Dan > > > End of seattle-python Digest, Vol 75, Issue 4 > ********************************************* > -- Mathematician: noun, someone who disavows certainty when their uncertainty set is non-empty, even if that set has measure zero. Hope: noun, that delusive spirit which escaped Pandora's jar and, with her lies, prevents mankind from committing a general suicide. (As interpreted by Robert Graves)
