mac app from a python script?

[Barry]

> On 25 Jan 2022, at 02:56, Dan Stromberg <drsalists at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 1:37 PM Barry <barry at barrys-emacs.org> wrote:
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>> I do not have experience with great, but you might try pyinstaller.
>> I use it to make a PyQt Mac app successfully.
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>> It’s command line plus setup script.
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> I wound up doing:
> 1) pyinstaller, as normal, but this created a broken all-encompassing binary of my script.  At least it gave me the metadata I needed though.

You mean it created a .app bundle?

That is the way that macOS makes it trivia to install apps
Just by drag and drop in /Applications.

Barry

> 2) overwriting /Applications/hcm.app/Contents/MacOS/hcm with a proper #!/usr/bin/env python3 script


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> This mostly works.  It's a kinda ugly hack, and it doesn't stay in the dock after starting it.
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> There should be a way of installing a python GUI in the macOS Applications list, without having to bundle everything up into a big binary.