On 1/19/11 9:11 PM, Charles Hartman wrote:
Do I need/want to use py2app to distribute my app(s)?
Never happens.
But this is where Bill J's use-case departs drastically from those of
many users, perhaps most, and certainly the majority of those who need
any help.
I'm not s
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Christopher Barker
wrote:
> On 1/19/11 9:11 PM, Charles Hartman wrote:
>
>>Do I need/want to use py2app to distribute my app(s)?
>>Never happens.
>>
>
> But this is where Bill J's use-case departs drastically from those of
>> many users, perhap
Christopher Barker wrote:
> > and certainly the majority of those who need any help.
>
> I think that's key -- Bill's approach is fine one for some users, but
> not what I"d recommend to newbies that aren't sure how to set a PATH.
Hmmm. My experience is that those are exactly the folks who get
Hi Chris
> How are you using distutils in this case? Are you installing stuff into
> the app bundle? Or into a system python? If a system python, you should
> probably use the system python's distutils (and thus its site.py) to do
> the work.
I am trying to install modules into the system pyth
Chris Weisiger writes:
> In short, if you are coding for other people who are not themselves
> programmers and who use OSX, then you want py2app.
I definitely agree with this. Py2app lets my self-contained Python
apps conform to the platform norm that users are expecting. In that
respect it's
On 1/20/11 2:10 PM, Mier, Alejandro wrote:
The problem is that, even though subprocess.call("python setup.py install")
picks up the system python
(sys.executable has the expected value), it still loads the modules from the
site-packages.zip in the .app bundle.
I suspect that you are getting e
In article <[email protected]>, Bill Janssen
wrote:
> Christopher Barker wrote:
>
> > > and certainly the majority of those who need any help.
> >
> > I think that's key -- Bill's approach is fine one for some users, but
> > not what I"d recommend to newbies that aren't sure how to se
This python development convo has been by far the most informative so
far. I'm coming at this from very much a hobbyist position. I'm a
teacher and I want one programming language that lets me solve my real
problems. I also want the same language to be able to do native Mac
stuff too, if I ever hav
Adam Morris wrote:
> >By the way, Python is more than "just another good scripting
> >language". I build large systems with it. I do (rarely) write Mac
> >"applications" with Python. I use Xcode and Cocoa-Python, and
> >IMO it works great. Is that using py2app "under the covers"? This
> >is a
We shouldn't lose sight of the fact that the people we're talking about who
need to build Python programs as apps -- several of whom have responded here
-- don't typically want to confine those apps to the world of Macs. Python
is a great language in which to build cross-platform (LOTS of platform
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