Re: Optional BSD package is required for (useable) Python?

Bob, thanks, you're a wealth of knowledge, as usual.

Bob Ippolito wrote:
> For an application actually embedding Python, you don't ever use the 
> executable, just the framework.  Bundlebuilder2, as-is, does not embed 
> Python, because it does not have an executable stub (just scripts).  

But it doesn't require /usr/bin/python either, does it?

> PyMacApp and the PyObjC Xcode template (they are indistinguishable) does.
>
> > B) your installer could install a /usr/bin/python2.3 symlink.
> That's probably a bad idea.
>
> There are two problems you can have.  You can't link to the framework 
> properly (boom! link error), or the Python code doesn't work.

Macs are just weird.

By the way, what's the status of BundleBuilder2? Should I be using it?

-Chris




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