> On Aug 22, 2025, at 2:54 AM, Jack Jansen via Pythonmac-SIG > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think your out of luck: > > https://appscript.sourceforge.io/status.html
While appscript is not seeing new features, it's more "done" than "unmaintained". hhas seems to do new builds for new operating systems and updates for new versions of Python. I'm using it quite successfully on python 3.13 and Sequoia, 13 years after this message went up, and 10 years after (allegedly) "Apple eliminated its Mac Automation department". I wouldn't base a major new business on it or anything but it always bugs me to see folks scared away from this perfectly usable automation technology with vague fearmongering about its future, 15 years into that "future" being declared dead and gone. > Also, note that AppleScript itself (or actually I should probably say OSA) is > as good as dead, unfortunately. > > Apple doesn’t actively support it anymore, and new programs don’t seem to get > any OSA support… What do you mean by "actively support it"? The "Privacy & Security -> Automation" access control integration with the new security model is only a few years old at this point. New applications like Shortcuts have OSA support. 3rd party apps like Acorn and OmniFocus have good scripting integration, and first-party stuff like Pages/Numbers/Xcode also have good integration that are hard to access in other ways. For what it works for, OSA is fine. People have been saying it's dead for like 15 years now, but it still works great and has much nicer, finer-grained security tools than it used to. It's probably not the future of any big new automation push. That will be Shortcuts, and, ugh, "Apple Intelligence". But I strongly suspect that once OpenAI goes bust and Siri's ChatGPT integration stops working, we'll still have AppleScript. >> On 20 Aug 2025, at 10:07, Thia Clay <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> is the Python library appscript still developing? if so, how can I build the >> wheel with GCC in Windows? >> _______________________________________________ >> Pythonmac-SIG mailing list -- [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> https://mail.python.org/mailman3//lists/pythonmac-sig.python.org >> Member address: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > _______________________________________________ > Pythonmac-SIG mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman3//lists/pythonmac-sig.python.org > Member address: [email protected]
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