[Pythonmac-SIG] py2app and dependencies

[Christopher Barker]

Ryan Govostes wrote:
> I'm having some trouble with py2app messing up package dependencies. I 
> built py2app from SVN HEAD a few days ago because the version 
> distributed with Apple's Python 2.5 did not appear to support egg 
> dependencies.

no version of py2app support eggs fully. In general, it supports eggs 
better when the eggs are unzipped, so you need to be careful to install 
all of your eggs unzipped:

easy_install -Z TheNameOfThePackage

you can tell if they are zipped of not by looking at site-packages -- 
zipped eggs are single files, unzipped ones are directories.

> Or should I do some post-build surgery on the resultant .app?

you may have to, but it should be a last resort. if your code (or code 
your using) makes use of pkg_resources, you may need to post-flight 
install the EGG_INFO stuff into your app.

-Chris


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