[Pythonmac-SIG] Why Do I Explicitly Need MacPython

[Bob Ippolito]

On 9/27/06, Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen at laposte.net> wrote:
> On Sep 26, 2006, at 10:45, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
>
> > You can use bdist_mpkg from the setup script and add additional
> > subpackages that way. PyObjC uses this to ship the examples and
> > Xcode templates, this is implemented setup-lib/pyobjc_mpkg.py in
> > the PyObjC source-tree.
>
> Thanks, I'll look at this.
>
> > PyObjC's installer also used to include dependencies, but that
> > functionality got dropped with the move to setuptools. I want to
> > restore this functionality because as you said it is very
> > convenient to have a single installer that installs a  package and
> > all of its dependencies, even in a world where setuptools exists.
>
> What I was looking for is actually a bit more modest: I want to
> create an installer that checks that all dependencies are fulfilled.
> Bundling everything in one installer is not always a good idea, as it
> could easily overwrite an already existing installation of some
> component.

You can do that from the plist, but you're going to have a hard time
determining what version of something is installed if they didn't
install it with a pkg installer.

-bob