Christopher Barker schrieb:
>  OT, but...
>  
>  
>  Thomas Heller wrote:
> > Have you tried to profile and speed up modulefinder, so that it gets faster?
> > I think that this would also be worth to try.
>  
>  or port py2exe to modulegraph, used by py2app, and now by bbfreeze. I 
>  think it's faster and maybe more robust, but that may be a function of 
>  what machines I'm running on...
>  
>  It would be really nice to have a grand unification of GUI builders. It 
>  strikes me that there are three components to any GUI builder:

GUI builders?  You mean APP builders, I assume.

>  1) The API presented to the user: how you specify what you want
>  
>  2) The module finding code: how the system figure out what to include?
>  
>  3) The actual app builder -- how everything gets packaged up.
>      - this is necessarily different for each platform, and appears to be 
>  one of the key differences between different systems on the same OS.
>  
>  
>  Anyway, ti would be nice if there was more shared code between the GUI 
>  builders -- at least (2) would help a lot. aside from coding 
>  efficiencies, It would be nice to be more platform independent. For 
>  instance, py2app's API is modeled after py2exe. However, they use 
>  totally different module finding code, so I find I need to give totally 
>  different extra directive for any but trivial packages -- that's a real 
>  pain.

Sure, plus a hooks mechanism like PyInstaller has it...

>  oh well, I'm not offering to write anything...

And that is the real problem.  Given the popularity of py2exe and friends
I really wonder why there isn't more activity in development.

-- 
Thomas

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