[Pyobjc-dev] 2.2.x / non-framework build update

[Bill B. <bb...@co...>]

I just did a bit of an experiment and was successfully able to run the 
TableModel example against Python 2.2.1 using the standard system 
supplied version of Python.

I had to build the application wrapper by hand as the 
objc/buildtools.py script depends on functionality that is only a part 
of the Framework build of python.   Digging deeply into said 
functionality, most of it is centric to supporting resource forks and 
legacy mac issues which are not relevant to Cocoa development.

Everything else worked as expected.

I am going to invest some time into putting together a template 
Py-Cocoa project that uses a standard distutils style build formula to 
build a working, standalone, Cocoa application without requiring 
anything but the pyobjc module and the standard Python 2.2 that ships 
with OS X.

Everything is there... just a matter of putting the right bits in the 
right place.

There are three primary challenges:

	- generating an appropriately configured plist.  This is trivial, 
really.

	- putting something together that can be easily managed through 
project builder.   I can't think of anything hard here.
	
	- building a tiny bootstrap binary that can be stuck in the .app 
wrapper and be used to bootstrap the python interpreter with the 
appropriate script & arguments within the app wrapper.  This is 
actually pretty trivial, as well.

So -- nothing left to do but toss some code at the problem. :-)

b.bum