Re: [Visualpython-users] Mac help?

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

I'm not working from a command line; I have no experience with that. I'm 
using PackageMaker. So I don't know how to answer your questions.

Bruce Sherwood

On 3/29/2010 8:43 PM, Nick Frisina wrote:
> Two ideas come to mind quickly (I'll have more time in May)
>
> 1) does the file location perhaps get set when the archive is created,
>      rather than when the archive is extracted?
>      perhaps use a -v (verbose) to see what is created ...
>
> 2) short term, create a symbolic link to the "correct named file" as part of
>      the package distribution !?
>
> perhaps post the command string you are using.
>
> ciao
> nickf
>
> On 30/03/2010, at 10:04 AM, Bruce Sherwood wrote:
>
>    
>> 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
>>
>>
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