[Pythonmac-SIG] Mac{ho}Python architecture ready for review

[Jack Jansen]

Folks,
if you check out the current head of the CVS repository you'll get all 
the applet and
launcher and other stuff that I plan to include in 2.3. Let me know what 
you think.

Here's the quick instructions:
1. configure --enable-framework
2. make
3. make frameworkinstall
4. make osxapps

The last step will do all the goodies. It'll create a folder 
/Applications/Python
that contains PythonLauncher, PythonIDE and BuildApplet. Also, there 
will be a hidden
application 
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/Python.app 
that is
used both for executing .pyw scripts by PythonLauncher and as the applet 
template by BuildApplet
and PythonIDE.

Applets can be created with sys.argv emulation, i.e. if you drop files 
on them your
script will see the pathnames of the files in sys.argv. This is the 
default. Alternatively
scripts can do their own AppleEvent handling, PythonIDE does this, but 
you have to invoke
BuildApplet form the commandline currently to get that behaviour.

A couple of bells and whistles are still needed. Here's what I can come 
up with, please
suggest more:
- icons for the .pyw file type and for BuildApplet,
- a way to associate .py and .pyw files with either PythonIDE or 
PythonLauncher from within PythonIDE
- moving stuff out of python.rsrc into a library rsrc file so applets 
become a lot smaller and
   faster to create.
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