-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Kevin Ollivier wrote: > > > What about an app bundle that just starts IDLE?
+1 on this idea. That's the way IDLE currently ships, and I think it's very useful. I myself don't like running Python GUI applications from the command-line: I like to see an application name in the menu, not "Python." That's more newbie-friendly as well. (This is how I packaged apps when I was shipping SPE for the Mac, for instance. It's also how Robin Dunn packages the demos for wxPython.) No one has said anything about the "applet" packaging concept as we discuss moving forward with this stuff. I'm assuming that this is because the tools based on WASTE aren't going to be ported (such as applet builder), and also because "applet" is part of Bundlebuilder, which has been deprecated in favor of py2app. However, the "applet" method is really an easy way to package apps that have the external dependencies already installed on one's machine: I always use the "buildapplet.py" script that came with the older MacPython distributions. This is a good use case for IDLE, as its dependencies (tkinter) come by default on the Mac. Using py2app or its variants would be overkill here. Will the applet still be available as a packaging model, deprecated, or obsoleted by the changes that are coming? - -- Kevin Walzer iReveal: File Search Tool http://www.wordtech-software.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFD60MCJmdQs+6YVcoRApLmAJ9qegJmORlNx/x3Elwq9Rt+GyNNmgCcCsHm qABbn9rkWErW9CSqGrOt4ys= =FUXP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
