Creating a proper application bundle on Macs

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aditya

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Dec 19, 2009, 12:44:03 AM12/19/09
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Hi PyInstaller developers,
I'm testing PyInstaller on OS X 10.4 and it works well. I especially
like the compression that PI offers – my Qt application is 16 mb vs 70
mb using py2app. One thing I noticed though: PyInstaller creates a
Unix executable on a mac instead of creating a full application
bundle.

If you're not familiar with bundles, all mac applications are actually
folders with a .app extension. They hide the actual application and
all of it's resources inside (icons, extra files, etc). This allows
for a lot of niceties and it's the usual format for all mac software.

Are there any plans for adding functionality that creates a proper mac
bundle?

Aditya

aditya

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Dec 22, 2009, 11:42:35 PM12/22/09
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*Anyone?*

Chris Mohler

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Dec 23, 2009, 12:26:45 PM12/23/09
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On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:42 PM, aditya <blueman...@gmail.com> wrote:
> *Anyone?*

http://svn.pythonmac.org/py2app/py2app/trunk/doc/index.html

HTH,
Chris

Giovanni Bajo

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Dec 23, 2009, 5:16:54 PM12/23/09
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On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:42:35 -0800 (PST), aditya
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> *Anyone?*

Preliminar bundle support is already in PyInstaller SVN trunk. Search the
mailing list for existing posts where I gave instructions on how to test
it.
--
Giovanni Bajo
Develer S.r.l.
http://www.develer.com

aditya

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Dec 23, 2009, 9:40:16 PM12/23/09
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Oh, whoops...sorry I missed that. Thanks!

Aditya


On Dec 23, 4:16 pm, Giovanni Bajo <ra...@develer.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:42:35 -0800 (PST), aditya

> <bluemangrou...@gmail.com>

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