[Pythonmac-SIG] py2app: options 'plugin'/'app'

[Bob Ippolito]

On 8/29/07, Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday, August 29, 2007, at 01:40PM, "Tobias Rodäbel" <tobias.rodaebel at mac.com> wrote:
> >Hi Ronald,
> >
> >I was wondering why 'plugin' and 'app' are no py2app options? There
> >is no other setup command needing them, I guess. I patched py2app/
> >build_app.py, to have 'plugin' and 'app' as real py2app-options. That
> >gives the opportunity to define them through setup.cfg as well, they
> >will be listed via --help etc.
>
> Good question, maybe Bob knows. My guess is that py2app  tries to be compatible with py2exe.
>

That's right, it does things the way py2exe does. It looks like the
patch might break the way it works now? If it was just an alternative
method then it could be applied, but if it's not backwards compatible
then it definitely will not be accepted.

-bob