[Pyobjc-dev] pluginbuilder: must specify 'nibname' - why?

[Martina O. <Ma...@Oe...>]

Hi,

I'm using pluginbuilder to build an AddressBook plugin.

As my plugin doesn't have a nib file, I didn't specify a nibname in the 
call to buildplugin. But pluginbuilder rejects this: "must specify 
'nibname' when building a plugin bundle". Why?

It seems that it is satisfied with a dummy nibname, as long as it is 
nonzero. nibname="" builds fine, but then AddressBook doesn't load my 
plugin and writes this to the console:
	MOAddressBookPlugin.bundle does not contain the correct ABActions.h 
methods.
The reason is apparently that NSPrincipalClass is not set in this case:
         if self.nibname:
             self.plist.NSMainNibFile = self.nibname
             if not hasattr(self.plist, "NSPrincipalClass"):
                 if self.principalClass is None:
                     raise bundlebuilder.BundleBuilderError, (
                         "must specify 'principalClass' when building a "
                         "plugin bundle")
                 self.plist.NSPrincipalClass = self.principalClass

Shouldn't this be:
         if self.nibname:
             self.plist.NSMainNibFile = self.nibname

         if not hasattr(self.plist, "NSPrincipalClass"):
             if self.principalClass is None:
                 raise bundlebuilder.BundleBuilderError, (
                     "must specify 'principalClass' when building a "
                     "plugin bundle")
             self.plist.NSPrincipalClass = self.principalClass

here is my build script:
from PyObjCTools.pluginbuilder import buildplugin

buildplugin(
	name = "MOAddressBookPlugin",
	mainmodule = "AddressBookPlugin.py",
	principalClass = "MOAddressBookPlugin",
	resources = [],
	nibname = "dummy",
	bundlesuffix = ".bundle",
)

I'm using PyObjC 1.1b1.

ciao
Martina