[Pyobjc-dev] new app-bundle-making-tools

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

I checked in two new modules in the Mac subtree of the Python project:

  Mac/Lib/bundlebuilder.py -- tools to assemble bundles
  Mac/Lib/plistlib.py -- generating and parsing plists

I also added a script to the pyobjc/Examples/TableModel/ demo that uses
bundlebuilder. It's called buildapp.py and looks like this:

  #
  # Successor of setup-app.py. Run this program from the command line like so:
  #
  # % python buildapp.py build
  #
  
  from bundlebuilder import buildapp
  
  buildapp(
      mainprogram = "TableModel.py",
      resources = ["English.lproj"],
      nibname = "MainMenu",
  )

Be sure to also try

  % python buildapp.py help

for an overview of options.

It isn't all that different from setup-app.py, but I didn't want to break that
one just yet... bundlebuilder.py and plistlib.py don't depend on any
Mac-specific modules, nor do they depend on pyobjc.

The next thing on my list is to enhance bundlebuilder to use modulefinder to
find all module dependencies and copy all the needed modules to the app bundle
to create a truly standalone application.

Just