In article <c56bef15.15bab%jke...@vectorworks.net>, James Kelly <jke...@vectorworks.net> wrote: > We usually place our py2app created app bundles on DVD using toast's hybrid > Mac and PC file-system setting. This works pretty well for us. > Unfortunately we have a need to place the same app bundle on a UDF DVD. > While this works great in testing, it seems the > Bundle.app/Contents/Resources/lib/site.py sym-link that points to > Bundle.app/Contents/Resources/site.py is broken when burning with toast. > > I haven't verified this myself, but I'm told when using an unspecified > Windows burning tool that the symlink is replaced with the actual file (so > there is an actual physical site.py in both of those directories. > > As I said, this seems to work anyway in testing (in both cases, the case > where the sym-link is broken and where the file is replicated), but I'd like > to be a little more informed about what's going on here and how important > this sym-link is before I allow it to be distributed around. > > So my questions are:
This doesn't directly answer your questions but perhaps a way to avoid any of these issues would be to encapsulate your app bundle in a disk image and place the disk image file on the DVD instead. That's a fairly common way to distribute an OS X application in a filesystem-agnostic manner. The disk image file may even be smaller than the app bundle. hdiutil create -srcfolder /path/to/your_app.app your_app-.dmg -- Ned Deily, n...@acm.org _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
