Out of curiosity, would it be much more work to create two release bundles ? One with and one without python bindings ?
I recall Libreoffice has done that for quite a while to optionally bundle a java runtime. Though they seem to have stopped doing that. Regards, Geert Op vrijdag 21 april 2023 18:20:10 CEST schreef john: > > On Apr 21, 2023, at 3:17 AM, monson <holymon...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi there, > > > > The pure python client `piecash` seems obsoleted and no longer worked with > > latest sqlalchemy and gnucash, so I'm trying to switch to original python > > bindings. Since they aren't shipped in the pre-built bundle, I tried to > > build those bindings but it seems have to build the whole gnucash and > > doesn't work well. On Linux (e.g. archlinux) those python bindings are > > shipped with the gnucash package. May I ask if we can do the same on > > macOS? Thanks. > Unfortunately there's no good way to do that. The Python bindings need to be > linked with libpython3 and Apple only provides one in recent versions of > Xcode--Xcode itself, mind, not the SDK--with a decidedly quirky framework > layout. Supporting that across 5 versions of macOS isn't practical. Worse, > since it's not in the SDK it can't be linked from another bundle: Apple's > notarization doesn't allow linking anything outside the bundle that's not > in either /usr/lib or /System/Library/Frameworks. With that latter rule the > only way to include the python bindings in GnuCash app is to include a full > build of Python in the bundle and you'd have to use the Python executable > in the bundle with the scripts. That's a lot of extra baggage for the few > users who want it. > > If building GnuCash with gtk-osx is too hard consider MacPorts instead. > Homebrew just "bottles" GnuCash.app so it's not an alternative. > > Regards, > John Ralls > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
