Ronald Oussoren wrote:
That should be "is really *NOT* expected to work right...". :)
And that's wrong. Py2app should work just fine with Apple's python, and then creates a semi-standalone app bundle that doesn't include Python itself. The advantage is a smaller application bundle, the disadvantage is that you must run it on the same OSX release as you built it on (or a newer one, AFAIK the result of building on 10.5 can run on 10.6)
OK -- I've always know that that was supposed to be the case, and a py2app'd bundle should certainly work on the machine it was built on anyway.
However, if I recall correctly, there have been issues for years with not just the core Python distribution not being included, but things getting ugly with installed add on packages not getting included either (or not properly). So I've always stayed away from trying, and encouraged others to do the same. That experience may be the result of bugs that no longer exist.
OTOH, if, indeed, using the system python results in a smaller bundle that works just fine on all versions of OS-X >= to the one it was built on -- that could be really nice and useful.
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