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diff --git a/Mac/OSX/README b/Mac/OSX/README index bfb9dde..1ee5fa3 100644 --- a/Mac/OSX/README +++ b/Mac/OSX/README @@ -50,7 +50,8 @@ information. This directory contains a Makefile that will create a couple of python-related applications (fullblown OSX .app applications, that is) in /Applications/Python, -and a hidden helper application Python.app inside the Python.framework. In addition +and a hidden helper application Python.app inside the Python.framework, and +unix tools "python" and "pythonw" into /usr/local/bin. In addition it has a target "installmacsubtree" that installs the relevant portions of the Mac subtree into the Python.framework. @@ -59,13 +60,30 @@ in the sequence 1. configure --enable-framework 2. make 3. make frameworkinstall -4. make osxapps -5. [optional] in Mac/OSX do "make installunixprograms", see below. -This sequence will put the framework in /Library/Framework/Python.framework and -the applications in /Applications/Python. Building in another place, for instance -$HOME/Library/Frameworks if you have no admin privileges on your machine, has only -been tested very lightly. +This sequence will put the framework in /Library/Framework/Python.framework, +the applications in /Applications/Python and the unix tools in /usr/local/bin. + +Building in another place, for instance $HOME/Library/Frameworks if you have no +admin privileges on your machine, has only been tested very lightly. This can be done +by configuring with --enable-framework=$HOME/Library/Frameworks. The other two +directories, /Applications/Python and /usr/local/bin, will then also be deposited +in $HOME. This is sub-optimal for the unix tools, which you would want in $HOME/bin, +but there is no easy way to fix this right now. + +Note that there are no references to the actual locations in the code or resource +files, so you are free to move things around afterwards. For example, you could +use --enable-framework=/tmp/newversion/Library/Frameworks and use /tmp/newversion +as the basis for an installer or something. + +If you want to install some part, but not all, read the main Makefile. The +frameworkinstall is composed of a couple of sub-targets that install the framework +itself, the Mac subtree, the applications and the unix tools. + +If you want to run the Makefile here directly, in stead of through the main Makefile, +you will have to pass various variable-assignments. Read the beginning of the Makefile +for details. + 5. What do all these programs do? --------------------------------- @@ -85,23 +103,12 @@ BuildApplet.app creates an applet from a Python script. Drop the script on it and out comes a full-featured MacOS application. There is much more to this, to be supplied later. Some useful (but outdated) info can be found in Mac/Demo. -If you install the commandline scripts /usr/local/bin/python and pythonw these +The commandline scripts /usr/local/bin/python and pythonw can be used to run non-GUI and GUI python scripts from the command line, respectively. 6. Odds and ends. ----------------- -The interesting targets in the makefile are: -installmacsubtree - explained above, -dontinstallmacsubtree - Put only a .pth file into the framework (pointing to this - sourcetree), which may be easier for development, -install_all - install all three .app applications, -install_Python - install the hidden interpreter .app into the framework, -install_PythonLauncher - install the user-visible script launch helper -install_IDE - install the IDE -installunixprograms - install symlinks/scripts mimicking normal unix Python into - /usr/local. - The PythonLauncher is actually an Objective C Cocoa app built with Project Builder. It could be a Python program, except for the fact that pyobjc is not a part of the core distribution, and is not completely finished yet as of this writing. @@ -111,4 +118,4 @@ actually resource files, they're AppleSingle encoded resource files. The macreso module and the Mac/OSX/Makefile cater for this, and create ".rsrc.df.rsrc" files on the fly that are normal datafork-based resource files. - Jack Jansen, jack@oratrix.com, 02-Aug-02
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