Any Python distribution solutions for Mac?

Rodney Somerstein

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Jul 8, 2002, 7:58:17 PM7/8/02

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The subject says it all. Is there any packaging mechanism for
distributing Python applications on the Macintosh? I know that there is
py2exe for Windows and that I can do similar things for Unix. But what
about for the Macintosh?

If not, is there anything planned? If so, when will it be available?

This, along with UI issues which wxPython is slowly taking care of on
the Mac is one of the things that has kept me from using Python.

Thanks,

-Rodney
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Dinu Gherman

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Jul 16, 2002, 8:01:36 AM7/16/02

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Rodney Somerstein wrote:

> The subject says it all. Is there any packaging mechanism for
> distributing Python applications on the Macintosh? I know that
> there is py2exe for Windows and that I can do similar things
> for Unix. But what about for the Macintosh?
>

> If not, is there anything planned? If so, when will it be avail-

> able?
>
> This, along with UI issues which wxPython is slowly taking care
> of on the Mac is one of the things that has kept me from using
> Python.

I wrote something to create "packages" (.pkg) on OS X.
All Apple update pacakges seem to use this kind of in-
staller. For some reason they are compressed using pax,
which is not always available on other platforms. Also,
my tool never handled multi-packages. And Installer.app
seems to give wrong install size estimates by definition,
but...

Yep, some people suggested to make a distutils adaptor
for it, but at the time that seemed too complicated to
me.

I haven't used it (buildpkg.py) for a while, but you
can get it here:

http://python.net/~gherman/#buildpkg

Regards,

Dinu

Rodney Somerstein

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Jul 17, 2002, 1:04:08 AM7/17/02

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In article <20020716140...@news.t-online.de>, Dinu Gherman
<ghe...@europemail.com> wrote:

> I wrote something to create "packages" (.pkg) on OS X.
> All Apple update pacakges seem to use this kind of in-
> staller. For some reason they are compressed using pax,
> which is not always available on other platforms. Also,
> my tool never handled multi-packages. And Installer.app
> seems to give wrong install size estimates by definition,
> but...
>
> Yep, some people suggested to make a distutils adaptor
> for it, but at the time that seemed too complicated to
> me.
>
> I haven't used it (buildpkg.py) for a while, but you
> can get it here:
>
> http://python.net/~gherman/#buildpkg
>

Thanks for the response, Dinu. I was beginning to doubt that any Mac
users actually read this group. I have had one other response which was
just a me-too.

I'll take a look at buildpkg when I get the opportunity.

-Rodney

Just

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Jul 17, 2002, 5:05:00 AM7/17/02

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In article <170720020104082917%rod...@nospam.io.com>,
Rodney Somerstein <rod...@nospam.io.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the response, Dinu. I was beginning to doubt that any Mac
> users actually read this group. I have had one other response which was
> just a me-too.

Most Mac people hang out at the pythonmac-sig:

http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig

There's also BuildApplication, which is not unlike py2exe, but currently
it's only supported for MacPython, not MachoPython.

Just