On 9/27/06, Konrad Hinsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 26, 2006, at 10:45, Ronald Oussoren wrote: > > > You can use bdist_mpkg from the setup script and add additional > > subpackages that way. PyObjC uses this to ship the examples and > > Xcode templates, this is implemented setup-lib/pyobjc_mpkg.py in > > the PyObjC source-tree. > > Thanks, I'll look at this. > > > PyObjC's installer also used to include dependencies, but that > > functionality got dropped with the move to setuptools. I want to > > restore this functionality because as you said it is very > > convenient to have a single installer that installs a package and > > all of its dependencies, even in a world where setuptools exists. > > What I was looking for is actually a bit more modest: I want to > create an installer that checks that all dependencies are fulfilled. > Bundling everything in one installer is not always a good idea, as it > could easily overwrite an already existing installation of some > component.
You can do that from the plist, but you're going to have a hard time determining what version of something is installed if they didn't install it with a pkg installer. -bob _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
