[mythtv-users] 0.25 Metadata v. Mac OS X

[Raymond Wagner]

On 3/23/2012 14:22, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> On 3/23/2012 11:25, Craig Treleaven wrote:
>> C'mon you Python folks--can you lend us a hand?;)
> The Python bindings just use the standard distutils library to describe
> its components to Python, and let Python install the bindings where ever
> it wants.  If those mechanisms do not work on OSX, that is an upstream
> problem for Python to resolve, or at least not something I can do
> anything about not having an OSX machine to test on.

The bindings are just installed through that 
mythtv/bindings/python/setup.py script.  You run "python setup.py build" 
to tokenize them in a temporary build directory for faster loading.  You 
run "python setup.py install" to install them to where ever Python 
stores its libraries on OSX.  On Linux, that is 
/usr/local/lib/python2.X/site-packages/.

If you are just installing directly, you may be able to get away with 
just running the above command, or more correctly letting it run through 
the bundled Makefile with "make install", however doing that may cause 
problems if you supply a --prefix during configure.  If you are trying 
to instead bundle the bindings within that redistributable .app package, 
you are going to want to just build (tokenize) them, and then you're on 
your own how to move those files into the app, and afterwards how to let 
Python know how to find those files stored in the app.