Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Embedding in Apps & Loading preferences Bundles

[Ronald O. <ous...@ci...>]

On Tuesday, Nov 26, 2002, at 02:56 Europe/Amsterdam, Peter Montagner 
wrote:

>
> On Tuesday, November 26, 2002, at 01:24 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
>
>> On Monday, Nov 25, 2002, at 14:37 Europe/Amsterdam, bb...@ma... 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Key challenge:   The classes that are subsequently subclassed by the 
>>> loaded module must have instance variables that look/feel/act 
>>> exactly like the iVars in the original parent class....
>>
>> That should be no problem, PyObjC can already to that. For me the key 
>> challenge is finding a way to initialize an embedded python 
>> interpreter and run a python script when the plugin bundle is loaded 
>> (and for bonus points: Initialize exactly 1 interpreter, even when 
>> loading more than 1 python-based plugin)
>
> Will this work with Apple's python? Or are you planning on shipping a 
> full python distro with the plugin? Otherwise it'd be a nice hack but 
> it wouldn't be distributable.

It won't work with Apple's python. You'd therefore be required to 
either ship a partial python distribution with the plugin or somehow 
build a Python shared library that is compatible with Apple's python. 
The latter would be kind of a hack, but probably doable.

Ronald