[Pyobjc-dev] Standalone Cocoa apps WORK!!!!

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

I fixed the problem with _AppKit -- it was a symbol collision.   See 
the NEWS file for details on what changed -- in short, I added the 
'static' keyword to a couple of the symbols generated by the 
enum/strconst generator script.  By using 'static', the symbols are not 
externally advertised and, hence, no symbol collision occurs.

The Web Services Tool can now be built as a standalone double-clickable 
app that will run any stock OS X 10.2 box.

To do so, you simply need to add a "Copy Files" build phase and copy 
/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/{AppKit,Foundation,objc} into 
Resources in a subdirectory named 'pyobjc'.

The Main.py simply does...

import sys
import os.path
sys.path.insert(0, os.path.join(sys.path[0], "pyobjc"))

import objc
import Foundation
import AppKit

import WSTApplicationDelegateClass
import WSTConnectionWindowControllerClass

sys.exit( AppKit.NSApplicationMain(sys.argv) )

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I can't even begin to tell you how happy this makes me -- finally, I 
can build/release pure Python based Cocoa applications without the user 
community having to dive through major hoops to install the app!!!

b.bum