Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Three issues with PyObjC under Snow Leopard

[Ronald O. <ron...@ma...>]

On 7 Oct, 2009, at 3:09, David Eppstein wrote:

> Just a follow-up on all this. The fix to the way I was wrongly calling
> super.init worked and my app is happy again. Because it all works I
> haven't yet tested the code to tell objc to be more verbose when an
> exception hits the border, but I assume that works too
>
> The XCode version of the app is about 200k and the setup.py version is
> about 16Mb, I assume because the setup.py version includes its own
> copy of Python. I haven't yet decided which of these two build styles
> is preferable; under 10.4 and before I would have definitely wanted
> the one that included its own Python, because otherwise there was no
> way of counting on it working on anyone else's computer, but is that
> still necessary these days?

The setup.py version is larger because py2app copies more stuff into the
application bundle. Are you using Apple's python or do you have a  
separate
python install?

>
> However, I still have one minor hangup that is causing the setup.py
> version not to work: my source code has a .xib file inside
> English.lproj which XCode helpfully translates to a .nib while
> packaging up the app, but setup.py doesn't seem to know to do that
> translation. If I manually move XCode's nib into the English.lproj of
> the app created by setup.py, it all works, so I'm pretty sure that's
> the only problem. Is there a way of doing the xib-to-nib conversion
> outside of xcode under the control of setup.py?

The most recent version of py2app has support for compiling .xib files.

Ronald

>
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Ronald Oussoren <ron...@ma... 
> > wrote:
>>
>> On 6 Oct, 2009, at 17:42, David Eppstein wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> """
>>> Script for building LaTeX Unicodifier
>>> D. Eppstein, October 2009
>>>
>>> Usage:
>>> python setup.py py2app
>>> """
>>>
>>> from distutils.core import setup
>>> import py2app
>>>
>>> plist = {
>>>  'CFBundleDevelopmentRegion': 'English',
>>>  'CFBundleExecutable': 'LaTeX Unicodifier',
>>>  'CFBundleIconFile': 'LaTeX Unicodifier.icns',
>>> }
>>>
>>> setup(
>>>  app = ['Latex.py', 'LaTeX_Unicodifier.py'],
>>
>> Use:
>>     app = ['main.py'],
>>>
>>>  data_files = ['English.lproj', 'LaTeX Unicodifier.icns'],
>>>  options = { 'py2app': {'plist': plist} }
>>> )
>>
>> The interface design for py2app was copied from py2exe, which is  
>> why you can
>> list several applications in the 'app' argument. Having more than one
>> application in setup.py is not implemented, and is luckily also not  
>> what you
>> need.
>>
>> Ronald
>>
>>
>>
>>