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authorJack Jansen <jack.jansen@cwi.nl>1998-02-25 15:40:35 (GMT)
committerJack Jansen <jack.jansen@cwi.nl>1998-02-25 15:40:35 (GMT)
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Added (minimal) documentation on how to build standalone applications
with Python. Updated various things (versions of libraries used, urls).
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Now let us try to turn the python script into an applet, a standalone
application. This will <em>not</em> work if you have the "classic 68k"
-Python distribution, only if you have the cfm68k or PPC distribution.
+Python distribution, only if you have the cfm68k or PPC distribution.
+
+<blockquote>
Actually, "standalone" is probably not the correct term here, since an
applet does still depend on a lot of the python environment: the
PythonCore shared library, the Python Preferences file, the python Lib
folder and any other modules that the main module depends on. It is
-possible to get rid of all these dependencies except for the dependency
-on PythonCore, but at the moment that is still quite difficult so we
-will ignore that possibility for now. By standalone we mean here that
+possible to get rid of all these dependencies and create true standalone
+applications in Python, but this is a bit difficult. See <a href="standalone.html">
+Standalone Applications in Python</a> for details. For this
+document, by standalone we mean here that
the script has the look-and-feel of an application, including the
-ability to have its own document types, be droppable, etc. <p>
+ability to have its own document types, be droppable, etc.
+</blockquote>
The easiest way to create an applet is to take your source file and
drop it onto "BuildApplet", located in the Python home