[Pythonmac-SIG] 2.3b2-b BuildApplet droplets not recognized as apps

[Just van Rossum]

Russell E Owen wrote:

> I've reported this as bug 769406 
>
<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=769406&
group_id=5470&atid=105470> 
> but I thought others might be interested. I'm certainly curious if 
> others are having the problem.
> 
> I just upgraded to 10.2.6 today (my DiskWarrior upgrade finally 
> arrived) and the problem remains the same (no surprise).
> 
> -------- bug as reported -----
> 
> I am using MacPython 2.3b2 (installed via the 2.3b2-2 binary 
> installer) on MacOS 10.2.3.
> 
> I turned zappycfiles.py (from the Mac directory of the 2.3b2 source 
> distribution, which I also have) into a drag-and-drop applet by 
> dragging onto BuildApplet. On the whole it works fine (though no 
> console for feedback and I've not figured out how to get one), but I 
> am having two problems that are almost certainly caused by the same 
> underlying problem:
> 
> - The Dock does not acknowledge that it's an application. I cannot 
> drag it into the usual app area of the dock.
> 
> - DragThing (4.6.1, the current version) seems to agree with the 
> Dock. It will not let me drag stuff onto it (even with "Check file 
> types during drags" unchecked).
> 
> Obviously more of an annoyance than a crisis, but I hope worth fixing.

This was reported just last week on the PyObjC list; it turned out to be
a bug in bundlebuilder.py and has been fixed in CVS.

Just