[Pythonmac-SIG] New Page, first proposal

[Kevin Walzer]

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Kevin Ollivier wrote:
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> What about an app bundle that just starts IDLE?


+1 on this idea. That's the way IDLE currently ships, and I think it's
very useful. I myself don't like running Python GUI applications from
the command-line: I like to see an application name in the menu, not
"Python." That's more newbie-friendly as well. (This is how I packaged
apps when I was shipping SPE for the Mac, for instance. It's also how
Robin Dunn packages the demos for wxPython.)

No one has said anything about the "applet" packaging concept as we
discuss moving forward with this stuff. I'm assuming that this is
because the tools based on WASTE aren't going to be ported (such as
applet builder), and also because "applet" is part of Bundlebuilder,
which has been deprecated in favor of py2app.

However, the "applet" method is really an easy way to package apps that
have the external dependencies already installed on one's machine: I
always use the "buildapplet.py" script that came with the older
MacPython distributions. This is a good use case for IDLE, as its
dependencies (tkinter) come by default on the Mac. Using py2app or its
variants would be overkill here.

Will the applet still be available as a packaging model, deprecated, or
obsoleted by the changes that are coming?

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