[Pythonmac-SIG] Build Applet Environ problem...

[Nicholas Riley]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 01:25:20PM -0400, Jerry LeVan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This weekend I got a MBP and started to transition to the Intel from  
> PPC.
> 
> I use the "Build Applet" tool to make lightweight apps that I can  
> launch from
> the Dock.
> 
> Some of my apps use environmental variables to simplify the  
> environment setup.
> 
> On the PPC G4 the applets would pick up the environmental variables  
> when launched
> from the dock. On the Intel side this does not appear to be the case.
> 
> If I launch the app from the command line "open -a" the environment  
> vars will
> be picked up.
> 
> Is this problem somehow my fault or is this a PythonMac/Intel problem?

Stuff you launch from the dock shouldn't read your shell rc files.
You'll need to use ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist instead.

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