Re: Exclude certain files from py2app built apps
Ronald Oussoren <[email protected]>
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On 13 May, 2013, at 10:05, Olivier Cornu <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > We have a python app we distribute on several platforms, including a py2app-built standalone application for Mac. > > Some of our data_files are platform-specific (icons, man pages…) and should therefore only be included where relevant. We use the MANIFEST.in mechanism to select which data_files get excluded from the builds produced. However, py2app does not seem to abide by it. py2app does not use the MANIFEST file, that file is meant to be used with the sdist command. > We've also tried defining data_files more restrictively so that only desired files figures in it. The whole data/ folder gets included nonetheless. > So far, the only solution we've found to this problem is to remove undesired files from the .app folder using a post-processing shell script (i.e. running after py2app). A rather inelegant hack. py2app currently doesn't have a way to filter which parts of a data folder gets included in the application bundle (that is, when you tell py2app to include 'data' you cannot tell it to exclude 'data/windows.dat'). > > What is the standard way to get fine-grained control over what data files py2app includes/excludes? > We noticed that, contrary to other setup.py build commands, py2app does not create a egg-info directory on its own. py2app doesn't use the egg-info data at all (and will also not include the egg-info directories of packages it copies into the application). That py2app is a distutils command is an historical accident, in the long run I'd like to refactor py2app into a standalone tool with a distutils command for backward compatibility. I have no idea when I'll get around to actually doing that. > Is it normal beahvior? Would py2app follow this egg-info regarding data files, if we built one beforehand? No. Ronald _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/Pythonmac-SIG