Re: Mac Packaging for Terminal Applications?
Re: Mac Packaging for Terminal Applications?
- Subject: Re: Mac Packaging for Terminal Applications?
- From: David Buxton <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 18:42:19 +0100
On 8 Sep 2010, at 17:39, Damian Johnson wrote:
> Hi, I'm currently working on packaging for a command line application of mine (http://www.atagar.com/arm). It's a python script so installing via a tarball hasn't been a problem for mac users so far, but I'm trying to make things easier. I just started distributing debs/rpms for Linux distributions, and I'm not sure of the proper counterpart for Macs. There seems to be two options:
Have you considered using Python's distutils to create a distribution script and register it on the Cheeseshop? That way people who aren't familiar with Python can just download and unpack a tarball and do "sudo python setup.py install" while those people with easy_install or pip can use those tools to fetch it remotely.
Here's the relevant bit in distutils about packaging command-line tools: http://docs.python.org/distutils/setupscript.html#installing-scripts
David B.
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