Hey Ned, The app bundle in question is actually an installer for a much larger, more complicated piece of software. :)
Thanks for the suggestion though. Jim On 12/15/08 4:09 PM, "Ned Deily" <n...@acm.org> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig