[Pythonmac-SIG] Building plugins with py2app

[Bob Ippolito]

On 10/12/06, Dethe Elza <delza at livingcode.org> wrote:
> On 12-Oct-06, at 3:01 AM, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>
> > Plugins are currently broken. This is a known issue... patches
> > accepted, I'm not sure when I'll have time to get to it.
>
> Can you give any more specifics about how it is broken.  I'm trying
> to write an article about how easy it is to build plugins with PyObjC
> and I'd really like it to be true again.  Is it documented somewhere
> that plugins are broken?  I've already wasted a few days of my hobby
> coding time trying to work around this.  And the plist thing doesn't
> just happen with plugins: the reason I started the switch to
> setuptools was that my icons stopped being added to applications
> under distutils.  Unfortunately, setuptools not only didn't fix the
> problem, it brought a host of other problems which I'm still digging
> out from under.
>
> And here I thought I was a late adopter of setuptools.
>
> Hints about the known problems and where to begin with solving them
> would be really appreciated.  Once I know what the problems are, I
> could even take a stab at improving the documentation.

plist thing just doesn't happen?

The plugin bootstrap is broken. They won't start.

The fact that plugins are broken is not documented, but neither is
anything else about plugins.

-bob