Re: [Pyobjc-dev] buildapp.py and bootstrapping

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

On 15 okt 2003, at 19:45, Bob Ippolito wrote:

> On Wednesday, Oct 15, 2003, at 13:25 America/New_York, b.bum wrote:
>
>> Any chance of upgrading buildapp.py with one (or both) of two  
>> features that would make debugging via gdb a boatload easier?
>> - add ability to copy in a bootstrap executable that uses an embedded  
>> Python interpreter in place of the script/link that exist today
>
> I don't see why this would be hard to do, and I think it makes sense  
> and it brings back potential OS X 10.1 compatibility as well, right?   
> Not that I care, but someone might.

A bootstrap executable that uses an embedded Python interpreter might  
also initialize faster,
and that definitly is usefull.

> Realistically though, couldn't you just write a script to launch gdb  
> with the right args, like this (imagine a simple shell script to  
> automate this):
> 	gdb --args  
> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/Resources/ 
> Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python  
> `pwd`/build/DrawBot.app/Contents/MacOS/DrawBot

That won't work unless this correctly set argv[0] to the full path to  
the wrapper inside the app bundle.

Ronald