[Pyobjc-dev] py2app -A equivalent in pyobjc2.0?

[Diez B. R. <de...@we...>]

Hi,

after developing quite a few nice apps in pyobjc 1.4 under 
Panther/Tiger, I finally started wetting my feet using 2.0

To be brutally honest: it hasn't been a smooth ride, to say the least.

Will Larson's tutorial helped to explain quite a few things. Thanks for 
that, the donation is under way.

But I can't stop noticing that *a lot* of things have become more 
cumbersome. That begins with the need to decorate methods and to 
explicit declare outlets.

It continues with the existence of *.m-files that require a C-compiler. 
Granted, I have that, but nontheless...

And Will mentions in part two that methods with underscores in them 
confuse the system. Have to experience that myself, as I'd rather not 
use CamelCase...

But what seems to me a rather big issue is that one does not work with 
setup.py/py2app anymore. The reason that bugs me is that I'm a heavy 
PDB-user, and my coding is done using Emacs.

So I used the py2app -A functionality to create an aliased project that 
I could modify the source in place, and potentially debug in the console.

Now I need to run build from XCode?!? Is there *any* way around that? I 
know one can invoke xcode from the commandline somehow, so far I never 
did that...

Or is there any chance I could continue to use 1.4? Or that the old 
py2app-powers somehow return?

Please don't take this as an insult to a truly great system.

Hoping for the best,


Diez