A few short questions about bzr send implementation for Apple Mail

Guillermo Gonzalez guillo.gonzo at gmail.com
Mon Mar 31 05:21:09 BST 2008


On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Erik Bågfors <zindar at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
>  I have written support for Apple Mail. Unfortunately, this has to be
>  done using Applescript.  The Applescript is generated in python. The
>  code I have now works, but due to how Applescript works, I need lines
>  longer than 80 characters.  I don't like this at all of course.
>
>  What I would like to do is to move the Applescript into a totally
>  separate little script and call that from the python code instead.
>  That would separate the applescript from the python code which would
>  be much better.
>
>  However, that opens up a few more questions
>  1) Where would that script be put in the bzr source code?
>  2) Where would that script be installed?

maybe as a plugin?

>  3) How do I make sure that it's installed by setup.py (at least on Mac)

this plugin can be included in the DMG's, and maybe recommended by
Macports/Fink?

>  4) How do I find it in the python code to be able to execute it

I can recommend you to take a look to appsccript
<http://appscript.sourceforge.net/>, it have a nice (more pythonic)
interface.
The only problem I see is that it's a external dependency :-(

Cheers,

-- 
Guillermo


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