On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 9:59 AM Dan Stromberg <drsali...@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. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list