[Visualpython-users] Mac problem resolved

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

I feel halfway between being betrayed and being an idiot.

In all my previous uses of PackageMaker to build installers for the Mac, 
the entities placed into site-packages were all folders, for which one 
must give the folder name in the destination as well as in the source, 
so for the visual folder I had to specify "Move stage/visual to 
site-packages/visual".

This time however it was necessary to place a file FontTools.pth into 
site-packages, and I assumed that I had to specify "Move 
stage/FontTools.pth to site-packages/FontTools.pth". Wrong! For a file, 
as opposed to a folder, you have to say "Move stage/FontTools.pth to 
site-packages/". For folders, if you don't repeat the folder name in the 
destination, no folder is created, and all the files in the source 
folder are spilled into site-packages.

I suppose there's some way to view this behavior as "normal", though to 
this bemused person it looks inconsistent.

I expect to be able to post VPython 5.3 today for all platforms.

Bruce Sherwood