[Pythonmac-SIG] py2app annoyance

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 26 Jan, 2010, at 15:57, Kevin Walzer wrote:

> On 1/26/10 6:17 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
>> 
>> The codebase for py2app is incomprehensible at times, although that is partially caused by external contraints (distutils and the attempt to mirror py2exe's interface).  It is all python code though and it should therefore be possible to clean it up without diving into C.
>> 
> I ran into difficulties with macholib. I didn't understand how to fix error messages like this:
> 
> > error: unpack requires a string argument of length 32
> > /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/macholib/ptypes.py(48)from_str()
> ->  return cls.from_tuple(struct.unpack(endian + cls._format_, s), **kw)
> 
> I tried to isolate what was going on, but nothing I tried worked. Eventually I gave up.

Adding print statements has enabled me to fix al issues in macholib that I ran into myself. 
> 
> 
>>> But Ronald sees to think there are real advantages to py2app, and he would know.
>> 
>> I prefer py2app over bundlebuilder, mostly because py2app can create standalone application without my specifying each and every file that needs to be included.
> 
> Bundlebuilder is more work in this respect, that's true.
> 
>>> 
>>> If only I had more time for this stuff!
>> 
>> What bugs my most about py2app discussions on this list is that there are too many people that complain and yet no-one seems to be inclined to do anything.
>> 
> 
> Ronald, did you see the patches included in this message?
> 
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pythonmac-sig/2009-December/021998.html
> 
> These may solve some of the issues that others have been reporting. I encouraged the author of these patches to send them to you.
> 
> (They didn't solve my own issues with py2app, which continues to report "New Mach-O header is too large to relocate" even after the patches. According to notes from Bob Ippolito in the list archives, the only solution here may be to recompile Tcl/Tk with different   headerpad flags, which I don't have time to do.)

I did see the patches but haven't had time yet to get them into the repository. The py2app patches require remodeling, but now that I look at the patches again I notice that the modulegraph does not and I have applied that patch in r32.

Ronald

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