[GNC] Pack with Python bindings on macOS?

[Geert Janssens]

Out of curiosity, would it be much more work to create two release bundles ? One with and 
one without python bindings ?

I recall Libreoffice has done that for quite a while to optionally bundle a java runtime. 
Though they seem to have stopped doing that.

Regards,

Geert

Op vrijdag 21 april 2023 18:20:10 CEST schreef john:
> > On Apr 21, 2023, at 3:17 AM, monson <holymonson at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > The pure python client `piecash` seems obsoleted and no longer worked with
> > latest sqlalchemy and gnucash, so I'm trying to switch to original python
> > bindings. Since they aren't shipped in the pre-built bundle, I tried to
> > build those bindings but it seems have to build the whole gnucash and
> > doesn't work well. On Linux (e.g. archlinux) those python bindings are
> > shipped with the gnucash package. May I ask if we can do the same on
> > macOS? Thanks.
> Unfortunately there's no good way to do that. The Python bindings need to be
> linked with libpython3 and Apple only provides one in recent versions of
> Xcode--Xcode itself, mind, not the SDK--with a decidedly quirky framework
> layout. Supporting that across 5 versions of macOS isn't practical. Worse,
> since it's not in the SDK it can't be linked from another bundle: Apple's
> notarization doesn't allow linking anything outside the bundle that's not
> in either /usr/lib or /System/Library/Frameworks. With that latter rule the
> only way to include the python bindings in GnuCash app is to include a full
> build of Python in the bundle and you'd have to use the Python executable
> in the bundle with the scripts. That's a lot of extra baggage for the few
> users who want it.
> 
> If building GnuCash with gtk-osx is too hard consider MacPorts instead.
> Homebrew just "bottles" GnuCash.app so it's not an alternative.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
> 
> 
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