[Pythonmac-SIG] App distribution with eggs

[Christopher Barker]

David Woods wrote:
> What method do folks recommend for building distributable apps which have
> dependencies on eggs?

1) we hope that someone will update py2app! Also, the bb-freeze 
developer is doing some work with trying to merge his stuff with py2app, 
but who knows when that will be done (he doesn't).

2) py2app works OK with eggs, as longs as the eggs are not zipped. You 
need to install them with:

easy_install -Z NameOfThePackage

You do get problems if you are using various setuptools dynamic version 
checking and package resource finding, but basic use works fine.

If you run into some of those issues, send another note here, I've found 
work arounds for my stuff.

-Chris



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