rhettbull/applecrate

Package your command line tools into a native macOS installer.

applecrate's Issues

Allow build_installer to accept path str instead of Path

Internally, applecrate uses pathlib.Path for all paths but the external interface (build_installer() should accept str | os.PathLike and do conversion to pathlib.Path if needed.

Add --chmod option

For example: --chmod 0755 /usr/local/bin/{{ app }}

Document self update mechanism

applecrate self update updates the applecrate to the latest version if used from the PyApp binary but this isn't documented.

--link args are wrong

docs use both DEST and TARGET

Also, format should be --link SOURCE DEST to match ln format.

For pyapp-runner, look at option to build universal binary

See rust-lang/cargo#8875

Allow --identifier to be specified with a template str

pkgbuild --identifier currently is set automatically as com.{{ app }}.{{ version }}. Allow user to specify this explicitly with a str or template.

Add means to update the non-PyApp version

applecrate self update updates the version if used from the PyApp binary but not if installed via pip or pipx. I think I can figure out a way to inject the current applecrate python package into the environment if installed via pip / pipx.

CI build script doesn't work if CI server is the local machine

The build script works up until the final copy to dist/package.pkg then leaves a zero-length file if the server is the local machine. Works fine for remote machine.

install source is not rendered

if install source is a template it is not rendered. The install target is. It would be helpful to have both source and target be templates.