[Pythonmac-SIG] py2app standalone options (original) (raw)

Bob Ippolito bob at redivi.com
Thu Dec 16 20:52:56 CET 2004

On Dec 16, 2004, at 2:35 PM, Chris Barker wrote:

Bob Ippolito wrote:

The way to tell it to include nothing is to build an alias bundle (-A), which is for development only and doesn't create something suitable for redistribution. Can you tell us more about what an Alias bundle is? Is like the old MacPython applet? What I would like is a bundle that includes all the code that isn't installed in the Python tree, but none of the code that is installed in that tree. Is that what an Alias bundle is?

--semi-standalone includes all third party code (anything used by /Library/Python/2.3 and otherwise) and nothing else. This is the forced default if you are using a /System installation of Python. If you are using a third party Python, it is not the default.

an alias bundle is for development, like bundlebuilder's --link option. It makes symlinks to any data files, and runs your code in-place.
It's very very fast to build an alias bundle, and provides for a very fast edit/run cycle.

The PyObjC documentation and tutorials have been updated to use py2app, you might want to also read this: http://svn.red-bean.com/pyobjc/trunk/pyobjc/Doc/tutorial/tutorial.html

-bob

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