mac app from a python script?

[Dan Stromberg]

On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 9:59 AM Dan Stromberg <drsalists at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hi folks.
>
> I have a Python 3 script (built on top of gi.respository.Gtk) that runs on
> Linux and macOS 11.5.  It's at
> https://stromberg.dnsalias.org/~strombrg/hcm/ if you're curious.
>
> It works the way I want on Linux, but on macOS I seem to have to start it
> from the command line, like:
>     hcm --gui
> ...because I don't know how to create a macOS "app" that goes under
> /Applications.
>
> I don't really care about having a single executable on macOS, and I don't
> really care about creating a .dmg or .pkg file. I'd be perfectly happy just
> running "make install" and putting a #!'d script under /Applications with
> appropriate metadata - but if it's easier to do a single executable, .dmg
> or .pkg, I'd be fine with that.
>

It turns out that using something called "appify" does this well.

I found it on a gist I believe.

I liked it so much that I adopted it and put it at
https://stromberg.dnsalias.org/~strombrg/mactools/ , with a few style
changes and small bug fixes.