[Pyobjc-dev] py2app being excessively standalone?

[Adam A. <ad...@at...>]

I asked this in a somewhat related thread a while ago, but it wasn't  
answered, so I just wanted to try again...

> Since, for now at least, py2app on Leopard will only build
> Leopard-compatible programs, why is it that it puts the whole runtime
> environment into the application bundle, when it's targeting systems
> that have this entire runtime environment preinstalled anyway? Every
> program ends up being over 20 MB or so... why is this necessary?

Or, equivalently for practical purposes, what do people usually do  
about this when distributing py2app-built applications? Surely it's  
not a good practice to just leave it like this?