[Pythonmac-SIG] Recurring question - which python should I use?

[Charles Hartman]

I know I'm ignorant, but this seems to me really bizarre. Why would  
you go through all that? What doesn't wxPython (for example) do, that  
you need a GUI to do?

Charles


On Mar 14, 2006, at 1:00 PM, Bill Janssen wrote:

>> Do you really not know about Py2App? It occasionally has some tricky
>> bits, and doesn't yet work with the new universal build, but it is  
>> still
>> better than anything else out there for any platform. In fact,  
>> with my
>> limited testing, it has always "just worked" which I can not say  
>> for py2exe.
>
> Chris,
>
> I haven't paid much attention to py2app, but that's because I guessed
> it didn't fit my needs.  I'm not writing apps in Python because I
> don't write Mac-specific code, and therefore need a portable GUI
> toolkit, and none of the available-for-Python-on-the-Mac portable GUI
> systems are good enough (I have hopes for GTK+ on Cairo, with the
> Imendio-sponsored port at
> http://developer.imendio.com/wiki/Gtk_Mac_OS_X).  My system consists
> of a Python daemon which uses PIL, ReportLab, Medusa, and PyLucene,
> along with 4 Python command-line programs, along with 2 Mac apps
> written in Java as bundled jar files (for Swing).
>
> When building an installer, I build the Python extensions from source
> (using the system Python) and install them under /usr/local/mysys/...
> The post-install script in the Mac installer then inserts a .pth file
> for my system's extensions in the system Python's site-packages
> directory.  This allows all the command-line Python scripts to use
> them, along with the daemon.
>
> Can you suggest a better approach?
>
> Bill
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