[Pyobjc-dev] buildapplication strawman

[Just v. R. <ju...@le...>]

I've attached a small and very quickly hacked up script that will build an
applet for the TableModel demo (the original, not #2). Drop it in that folder
and run it from the command line.

What it does is create a bunch of folders, copies a bunch of files, and poof,
there's an app. It basically does the same thing as Ronalds setup-app.py script,
except it doesn't depend in (MacPython's) buildtools.py, which in turn depends
on some Mac-specific modules not available in the Apple-shipped Python 2.2.

I'd like to turn it into a module, refactored in a nicely extensible way. The
next step would be to plug in freeze's module finder and (optionally) copy all
modules the main program depends on to Contents/Resources as well. An
interesting middle way might be to _only_ copy those modules that are not
shipped by Apple (ie. only everything in site-packages and sys.path entries not
enclosed in sys.prefix + "/lib/python<version>/").

It could in theory be a distutils extension, but I'm not sure that buys us much:
it only needs to copy files and compile .py files into .pyc (it doesn't do the
latter yet, though). On the other hand: py2exe is a distutils extension, and
that works wonderfully (it builds standalone Windows executables).

Comments?

Just