Re: [pygame] Executable creation blues

["Bob Ippolito" <bob@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/28/06, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Bob Ippolito wrote:
>
> > The other pathological case is where a C extension invokes the import
> > machinery, which happens a bunch in the stdlib (e.g. importing codecs,
> > warnings, etc.). py2app has complete coverage of these scenarios in
> > the stdlib (as of Python 2.4, anyway), but I don't believe that py2exe
> > does.
>
> Seems like the various packager development efforts
> could benefit from more cooperation with each other.
> All the platform-independent knowledge about how to
> find dependencies ought to be factored out and made
> available in a way that all packagers can use.

I already did this with modulegraph. It's up to other people to use it
though, I don't have the time or interest to make patches for other
people.

> Deciding on a common user interface for packagers
> would help, too. Currently each one has its own
> unique way of going about things.

Since when? py2exe and py2app are almost the same until you start
using platform specific features.

-bob