> On 25 Jan 2022, at 02:56, Dan Stromberg <drsali...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 1:37 PM Barry <ba...@barrys-emacs.org> wrote: >> >> I do not have experience with great, but you might try pyinstaller. >> I use it to make a PyQt Mac app successfully. >> >> It’s command line plus setup script. > > 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 > > This mostly works. It's a kinda ugly hack, and it doesn't stay in the dock > after starting it. > > 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. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list