[GNC] Pack with Python bindings on macOS?

[john]

I guess about an hour per release, but most of that time would be the computer working, not me. The main effort would be in figuring out how to set things up so that the two builds wouldn't get mixed up.

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Apr 22, 2023, at 1:44 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:
> 
> 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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