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I was glancing through the py2app documentation, and there are a few features we may want to consider:

• --use-pythonpath and --site-packages seem to set up site.path: would these allow somebody to import other code from their own machine? That would be great, assuming it doesn't interfere with the libraries that come bundled in the app
• --no-chdir - does this address the current working directory bug (issue #2)?
• --iconfile - we will want to add this once we have an icon!

ATPy
Still on an old version that doesn't play nicely with unicode file paths

Matplotlib
Best to upgrade to the newest version (v 1.2 slated to be released on Oct 15, so that's probably the long term target). A bug in older versions prevents semi-transparent image layers from rendering correctly (glue-viz/glue#92). A temporary fix is to use the latest dev version

Both glueqt and Glue.app will execute any python script passed as an argument. However, they run from a different working directory:

cwd.py:

import os
print "Current directory: ', os.getcwd()

glueqt:

beaumont@beaumont-2:~$ glueqt ~/cwd.py
Current directory:  /Users/beaumont

Glue.app

beaumont@beaumont-2:~$ /Applications/Glue.app/Contents/MacOS/Glue ~/cwd.py
Current directory:  /Applications/Glue.app/Contents/Resources

Because of this, the full path to any script passed to Glue.app must be provided:

beaumont@beaumont-2:~$ /Applications/Glue.app/Contents/MacOS/Glue cwd.py
CRITICAL:   File "/Applications/Glue.app/Contents/Resources/__boot__.py", line 39, in <module>
<trimmed>
Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'cwd.py'
2012-09-12 15:59:23.614 Glue[95094:707] Glue Error

Does py2app provide a way around this? If not, we can figure out a hack to put in Glue