Virgil Dupras wrote:
Is it possible that py2app is a little too complex for what it does?
I think a lot of the complexity of py2app and py2exe come from trying to automatically figure out what modules and libraries need to be included. I've been thinking for a while about creating something simpler that doesn't attempt any automatic module discovery at all. You would be required to construct a project file that explicitly lists all the required modules and libraries, including standard library modules. This may sound onerous, but I don't think it would be if you did it as part of the process of developing the code. There would be a testing mode which would run the application in an isolated environment using the current project settings. If you did all your development that way, you would immediately discover when something was missing and needed to be added to the project. Furthermore, you would be assured that if it works during testing, it will also work when bundled -- something that currently requires a separate testing step when using py2app or py2exe, because you can never trust them to find all the dependencies correctly. Does anyone else think such a tool would be useful? -- Greg _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/Pythonmac-SIG
