Packaging modules with Bundlebuilder

[DLitgo]

Hello everyone,

I'm curious about creating .app files for the mac using bundlebuilder
(or py2app or even py2exe). I'm just about done creating a GUI for a
little set of scripts which basically perform batch image editing.

If I send this app to friends and family will they be able to use it?
Or would they have to download PIL (which the app uses). I guess what
I'm asking, does PIL get bundled into the app? I obviously wouldn't
want them to have to download anything as that would be embarrassing
to me

 

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Hello everyone,

I'm curious about creating .app files for the mac using bundlebuilder
(or py2app or even py2exe). I'm just about done creating a GUI for a
little set of scripts which basically perform batch image editing.

If I send this app to friends and family will they be able to use it?
Or would they have to download PIL (which the app uses). I guess what
I'm asking, does PIL get bundled into the app? I obviously wouldn't
want them to have to download anything as that would be embarrassing
to me

I never bundled PIL myself, but py2app at least comes with a recipe for
it - which means that it should be included into the distribution.

And that should be self-contained, including even the python interpreter.


So friends and family ought to be safe.

Diez

 

[DLitgo]

I never bundled PIL myself, but py2app at least comes with a recipe for
it - which means that it should be included into the distribution.

And that should be self-contained, including even the python interpreter.

So friends and family ought to be safe.

Diez

Okay cool, thanks for the reply!

 

[Mike Driscoll]

Hello everyone,

I'm curious about creating .app files for the mac using bundlebuilder
(or py2app or even py2exe). I'm just about done creating a GUI for a
little set of scripts which basically perform batch image editing.

If I send this app to friends and family will they be able to use it?
Or would they have to download PIL (which the app uses). I guess what
I'm asking, does PIL get bundled into the app? I obviously wouldn't
want them to have to download anything as that would be embarrassing
to me

I'm pretty sure that PIL will get bundled in if you use py2app. I know
py2exe bundles everything needed for Windows binaries. I actually use
GUI2Exe to bundle my applications. It's a nice GUI to py2exe, py2app
and several other packagers. You can get it here: http://code.google.com/p/gui2exe/

Note that I do not have a Mac and thus, have not used py2app...see
their docs for complete info.

Mike