[IronPython] Silverlight 2 and app.xap layout

[Michael Foord]

Hello all,

An issue with chiron and the directory layout you need to create an 
'app.xap'.

(Note - I am doing this on a machine without the SDK or Visual Studio 
installed so that I can test on a machine similar to the ones I will use 
the Silverlight apps from.)

In order for chiron to serve an application from the filesystem you need 
to create an
'app' subdirectory and place your Python files (etc) in this.

If you then run 'chiron /x:app.xap' on this folder it creates a zip file 
with the same directory structure - but Silverlight is then *unable* to 
use the resulting app.xap (it fails with a error message 'the 
application must have an entry point app.*' - it is unable to find 
app.py from the app subdirectory).

If you copy the files into a flat directory structure then chiron will 
generate an app.xap that Silverlight can use - but chiron is *unable* to 
serve the application from this folder *until* you
have generated app.xap.

This means that you cannot use the same folder layout for testing your 
apps and for creating them...

Michael