Re: [Pyobjc-dev] PyObjC newbie questions

[Gary R. <gro...@tr...>]

> The bad 
> news is that PyObjC currently doesn't work on 10.1, mostly because none
> of the developers have access to a 10.1 system.

Hmm. Too bad it didn't happen to work on 10.1 anyway. But it is hard to keep
extra machines around with obsolete OS's.

If I don't use PyObjC for this app I'll definitely look forward to using it
when more of the user base can access such apps. But for this application I
think I can't afford to lose the 10.1 user base...

Let me ask a quick somewhat off-topic question. Online I saw an example, I
think from Apple, of an AppleScript Studio application that invoked a Perl
daemon to do stuff that Perl was more capable of doing... communication was
via SOAP (using AppleScript's SOAP calls on the AppleScript Studio side). It
seemed quite easy.

That seems like an approach I could take for this, except using a Python app
as the daemon. The AppleScript Studio app would invoke it and tell it to
shut itself down when it isn't needed.

Do you know if I can write a Python app of that nature and bundle it with
the Python interpreter into a single executable under 10.1 and 10.2? Would
other python installations the user may have interfere in any way? Any
problem with making such an app "faceless" in the sense of having no
presence in the dock?

Many thanks for all your help!

--Gary

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