On 23 Jul, 2010, at 0:21, Christopher Barker wrote: > Ronald Oussoren wrote: >>> Ronald Oussoren wrote: >>>> modulegraph should be platform independent >>> indeed -- it's used by bbfreeze: >>> >>> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/bbfreeze/0.96.5 >>> >>> Though I think he's forked it. But it might be good to get in touch and see >>> if he's got patches to integrate. >> I really don't understand why people think it is a good idea to fork >> opensource packages unless the original author is completely unresponsive >> and/or moves the project in a different direction. Even then I'd let the >> original author know about that. > > Neither do I -- indeed I specifically recommended that he report back to this > list, and maybe even share more code with Py2app, as he was interested in > making bb-freeze Mac-compatible at one point. > > But if he was interested in working more collaboratively, he probably > wouldn't have started a brand new python bundling project in the first place!
That depends, maybe he just wants to have one project that works everywhere, and then trying to merge py2exe, py2app and other projects is probably way much more work than just writing something from scratch. > > Ronald Oussoren wrote: >> And they very helpfully even didn't bother to document what they >> changed, or which version they forked. That makes comparing the two >> unnecessarily hard, and hence I won't bother to do so. > > Darn -- what a pain! Have you tried asking him? He's been pretty responsive > on his list. No. > > By the way -- he did post on this list at one point looking for volunteers to > work on the Mac version of bb-freeze, and I don't think he got any takers. I won't volunteer either, py2app works for me and works on python3. Ronald
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