Re: [Pyobjc-dev] buildapplication strawman

[Jack J. <Jac...@or...>]

On zondag, nov 17, 2002, at 21:44 Europe/Amsterdam, Just van Rossum 
wrote:

> I'd like to turn it into a module, refactored in a nicely extensible 
> way.

Your code appears to be a modified version of 
Mac/script/buildappbundle.py, or is the similarity a coincidence? 
Anyway, my plan was to put the buildappbundle functionality into 
Mac/Lib/buildtools.py when I find the time for it. Putting your 
buildapp functionality in there as well should be a minor task. And 
then the code should be factored into an OS9-only bit (which would have 
all the MacPython-specific stuff dealing with opening resource forks 
and such) that wouldn't be imported if we're on OSX.

>  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>/").

Great minds think alike:-) I was just thinking the same thing when 
cycling home today: freeze's module finder should get an optional 
argument that would make it skip any modules in the standard python 
distribution. This is fairly simple: any sys.path entry that starts 
with sys.prefix or sys.exec_prefix except for site-packages could be 
considered the standard distribution.
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