Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Building plans .....

2020-03-11 Thread Just van Rossum
FWIW, as far as I can tell, a non-framework-build can't be used to build a native macos app, at least not with py2app. I ran into this while trying to build an app on github-actions, and had to resort to downloading and installing Python from python.org upon build. Which is wasteful, and in my eye

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Building plans .....

2020-03-11 Thread David Brooks
On 12/03/20 1:11 pm, Christopher Barker wrote: >> The problem is that I *really* don't have the autoconf skills to do that! But I'm hoping with some prodding and show of support, someone with take it on :-) I won’t, finding time to work on Python is hard enough and I’d rathe

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Building plans .....

2020-03-11 Thread Christopher Barker
Thanks for your thoughts, guys. Now I'm more confused about what is best to do: On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 2:44 PM Jack Jansen wrote: > As the person who originally invented (or co-invented? Not quite sure > anymore) Well, I'll give y9ou credit, you pretty much single handedlhy kept Python alive

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Building plans .....

2020-03-11 Thread Jack Jansen
As the person who originally invented (or co-invented? Not quite sure anymore) that trick of using a binary inside the App bundle, and the horrible scripts to create it: there’s a couple of things worth noting: - There are now perfectly sane ways to build bundles (whether Framework or App bundl

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Building plans .....

2020-03-11 Thread Ronald Oussoren via Pythonmac-SIG
> On 9 Mar 2020, at 17:53, Christopher Barker wrote: > > All, > > (mostly Ned and Ronald...) > > TL:DR: > > Are there any plans to update the build scripts for the python.org > python(s)? It would be really nice to get the mac builds > more inline with the rest of the U