Re: [Pyobjc-dev] PyObjc speed

[b.bum <bb...@ma...>]

On Tuesday, July 8, 2003, at 2:42 PM, Just van Rossum wrote:
> (thinking out loud) I think that for 2.3 we should make a special
> (Objective-)C main program that takes over the bootstrap stuff, is
> linked against Cocoa and Python.framework, and does not do the
> os.execve() trick. It can look up additional info in the Info.plist 
> file
> (like, what Python main program to execute). I think it wouldn't be all
> that unlike Bill's bin-python-main.m. It won't have to be compiled 
> every
> time, we can ship it with a binary distro so we're still able to build
> apps without the dev tools.

Just look in the attic... ;-) Web Services Tool originally used an 
embedded interpreter.

And it does again -- the project templates should be updated, at some 
point.  You can actually have a single template covering both cases, 
but it make project administration somewhat of a bear.