[Pythonmac-SIG] py2app not including /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages

[Christopher Barker]

On 1/24/11 6:10 AM, michael ferraro wrote:
> it wont deploy without an installer but at least it runs!

I suppose so -- but what's the point? If you want to have a program run 
only with a python install like yours, you don't need py2app...

It's still unclear to me what py2app is expected to be able to do with 
Apple's Python. but in practice, we generally use it with the python.org 
installer, as that gets you a fully independent app bundle.

In theory, you can build an app this way on 10.6, and it can run on 
10.3.9 and above.

In practice, all your user-installed packages have to be built for 
10.3.9 and above, too, and that is a bit tricky. However, most folks 
building binaries are trying to support that, so it certainly can work.

I don't know bout QT, though -- I don't use it.

If you want to continue with Apple's python, you might try:

1) adding the extra stuff in as required packages in your setup.py

or

2) writing some post-flight code into your setup.py that copies what you 
need into the app bundle --it's just a well-structured directory, after all.

good luck!

-Chris



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