[Visualpython-users] Mac help?

[Bruce S. <Bru...@nc...>]

I hope someone with Mac experience can help me. I've prepared an 
installer for a significant update VPython 5.3 but am unable to make an 
installer for the Mac.

Thanks to Kadir Haldenbilen, VPython 5.3 provides extrudable 3D text of 
any True Type font, which is very cool. This requires some extra modules 
beyond numpy, and these should be included in the installer for ease of 
use. Each of these modules has a folder of .py files plus an egg-info 
file that needs to be at the same level as the folder. In PackageMaker I 
list the egg-info files as usual, but alas PackageMaker creates an 
installer which when run places these egg-info files inside folders with 
the same name as the egg-info file, minus  the ".egg-info" extension. 
This doesn't cause problems with numpy, but with one of the other 
modules it causes Python to fail to find modules inside the module folder.

I of course Googled a bit without finding any information on this. It's 
frustrating that in PackageMaker I give a destination like 
.....site-packages/xxx.egg-info but it goes into 
.....site-packages/xxx/xxx.egg-info. Experimentally, if I move the 
egg-info file up one level, VPython 5.3 works fine. I cannot find any 
switches in PackageMaker to prevent this bizarre behavior. I also tried 
chmod-ing the egg-info files to match the permissions on the numpy 
egg-info file, but that didn't help.

AAARRRGGGHHH!!! HELLLLLLLP!

Bruce Sherwood