Not being able to redistribute parts of system python is totally understandable - it's not a very well-documented limitation, however. Here's a patch applied to head that describes this in the 'Building for deployment' section, and also corrects a misspelling in build_app.py that appears in py2app -h help pages.
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/68059/patches/standalone_doc_spelling.patch On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 6:44 AM, Ronald Oussoren <[email protected]>wrote: > > > On 26 Jul, 2010,at 12:27 PM, "Brendan Simon (eTRIX)" < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Subject: > Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] py2app architecture problem and System Python question > From: > Ronald Oussoren <[email protected]> <[email protected]> > Date: > Mon, 26 Jul 2010 02:25:21 -0700 (PDT) > To: > Tom MacWright <[email protected]> <[email protected]> > CC: > [email protected] > > > And how do I test these distributions quickly, as running OSX within > VirtualBox isn't supported and I don't have infinite computers to play > around with? > > > I use OSX 10.5 Server in a Parallels VM to test cross-release support. > > > Does "OSX within VirtualBox isn't supported" mean :- > > - It doesn't work ?? > - or, Apple don't allow you to run OS X in VB ?? > > > I'm running OS X 10.6, and I would like to test my Python app bundle on an > OS X 10.5 box, so being able to have a VirtualBox install of OS X 10.5 would > be very handy :) > Any idea why it "isn't supported" ?? > > > > I haven't used virtualbox, but the OSX license only allows you to run the > server editions of OSX 10.5 or 10.6 in a virtual environment (and then only > if the underlying physical server is an Apple machine). > > Parallels enforces these restrictions, other tools may or may not do the > same. > > Ronald > > > > Thanks, Brendan. > > _______________________________________________ > Pythonmac-SIG maillist - [email protected] > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig > unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/Pythonmac-SIG > > > _______________________________________________ > Pythonmac-SIG maillist - [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig > unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/Pythonmac-SIG > >
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