Christopher, it still isn't clear to me _why_ you wouldn’t want to use a framework build…
The whole exercise feels a bit like discussions from 15 years ago, with Unix wizards who wanted MacOS to behave as if it was plain vanilla Unix without all the things Apple changed. And that is much less true today than it was then… Jack > On 18-Jan-2021, at 18:38 , Christopher Barker <python...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 1:34 AM Ronald Oussoren <ronaldousso...@mac.com > <mailto:ronaldousso...@mac.com>> wrote: > As mentioned on python-dev adding the “pythonw” functionality to the unix > build is not very hard. I expect that integrating with the build system > (Makefile/configure script) will be the hardest part due to introducing > different behaviour for the macOS platform. > > Thanks Ronald, that confirms my suspicions that this is really an autoconf > issue. Which makes it an utter mystery to me :-( >> And we already have a work around in the core python code, it's just that >> the build system needs to be set up to build it outside of a Framework. > The framework build does not have a workaround for these problems, it has a > proper solution ;-). > > Glad to hear that -- in earlier conversations, I got the impression that you > thought the executable wrapper was kind of a hack :-). > > Anyway -- if any of you have autoconf expertise and the inclination, I'd love > to see this get done, and would be glad to help as best I can. > > -CHB > > -- > Christopher Barker, PhD (Chris) > > Python Language Consulting > - Teaching > - Scientific Software Development > - Desktop GUI and Web Development > - wxPython, numpy, scipy, Cython -- Jack Jansen, <jack.jan...@cwi.nl>, http://www.cwi.nl/~jack If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution -- Emma Goldman
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