like py2exe, but on a mac

Kevin Walzer kw at codebykevin.com
Fri Aug 1 10:11:17 EDT 2008


William McBrine wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:24:49 -0700, Russell E. Owen wrote:
> 
>> That is exactly what py2app does by default if you run py2app with the
>> system python.
> 
> Thanks. I see that it* avoids the issue with Tk starting in the 
> background that I get with Platypus, too.
> 
> In fact, it looks like the bundlebuilder module is adequate for my needs. 
> It does put in a version-specific #! line, but if I change that to
> #!/usr/bin/env python, the app still works, and it seems to me that it 
> will work for any version of Python on OS 10.4, 10.5, and maybe 10.3.
> 
> * I still haven't actually tried "it" (py2app), since I realized that I 
> already had bundlebuilder, but I'm assuming it's the same in this respect.
> 

Bundlebuilder is pretty much obsolete--py2app is much better, cleaner.


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