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From: john <nospam@no.net>
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Subject: Re: py2app dependency determination?
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 18:24:11 -0800
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Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> On Sat, 21 Jun 2014 16:50:22 -0800, john wrote:
> 
>> Hi, trying to get py2app to work. It keeps saying that we need
>> Pillow-PIL, which is wrong. And, anyways, Pillow-PIL fails to install.
>> 
>> The program works fine as a normal python script, and it doesn't use
>> Pillow- PIL. Any ideas?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> (1) Since this is specifically a py2app issue, you may have better
> results from asking on a dedicated py2app mailing list.
> 
> (2) Is it possible that Pillow or PIL is a dependency of py2app, and the
> error has nothing to do with your script at all? What happens if you run
> py2app on a minimal script like this?
> 
> # hello.py
> print("hello world")
> 
> (3) If not, please post a minimal set of steps that demonstrates the
> problem, and the *exact* error message generated (if possible). For
> example:
> 
>     Download py2app version 1.3 from http://some.place.com
> 
>     Run the py2app installer.
> 
>     Create a minimal script hello.py (as above)
> 
>     Run py2app hello.py
> 
>     The result is ... [whatever actually happens]
> 
> 
> 

We will try that, thank you