[Pythoncard-users] Re: Encapsulation

[PeterAndBrian <pe...@pe...>]

At 11:25 AM 9/4/2001 -0700, Kevin wrote:
>The way to do this will be to have the equivalent of a Java .jar file,
>basically a .zip or something with a well-defined manifest describing the
>other files in the archive. The .jar equivalent has to be double-clickable
>or runnable just like any other .py script, so it will probably be a .pyw
>file with some other magic. Yet another project for someone to figure out.
>We will have multiple resource descriptions, modules, images, sounds, icons,
>cursors, configuration info, user data and all sorts of things that
>typically get stuck in the resource fork in a Mac application and in a
>sub-directory on Unix and Windows.

Something like a .jar sounds cool to me.  What's a .pyw file?

Sounds like there may come a day when we want some features from the 
Macintosh Resource Manager - if something like that does not already exist 
in the Python world.  I wonder if Apple's open source Darwin project 
includes the Resource Manager for OS X.  We cold not use the code directly, 
without resorting to compiled C - but it might be instructive if we have to 
implement something like it.