[Baypiggies] Help with creating Python-based Mac Application

[Mike Smith]

Irv I am interested what type of algos is your game using? Game theory?
Reinforcement learning, neural networks, etc?

On Fri, Aug 5, 2022, 11:04 Deirdre Saoirse Moen <deirdre at deirdre.net> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 5, 2022, at 10:43 AM, irv furrypants.com wrote:
> > But I've found that building a Mac application is quite a bit more
> > complicated.  I can build the Mac application and it runs fine ... on
> > my computer.  But it won't run on any other Mac.  This is because of a
> > relatively new safety feature of the Mac called GateKeeper.  In order
> > to run on other Macs now, applications need to be "signed" by the
> > developer.
>
> Right, everything's got to be signed if it's running on a "non-blessed"
> system. (You can add specific devices that'll load development or
> enterprise builds in the developer portal if you just want to add another
> device for testing.)
>
> Partly this is because each app is now run in a chrooted space in its own
> sandbox. You can share some parts of sandboxes between different apps you
> create, but it of course doesn't know what's "yours" until you sign it.
>
> > So I've paid my $99 to become an official Apple developer.  But I am
> > lost trying to read through all the documentation from both Apple and
> > PyInstaller (using ".spec" files) about how to use the Apple Developer
> > ID and "certificates".  Apple's documentation is all about how to use
> > Xcode - which I'm not using.  It's completely unclear to me what steps
> > I have to do to sign my application.
>
> These days, I'm a Swift developer, so I only know how to do the signing
> via Xcode (Product -> Archive after setting the target to the "Any Mac"
> generic device). I'll look after work and see if there's some command-line
> utility that may help you.
>
> What tools are you using to creating your app (other than PyInstaller)?
>
> > I'm asking if anyone here has gone through the process of turning a
> > Python program into a Mac executable and wouldn't mind spending some
> > time with me (via Zoom) to help me get this done.
>
> I deal with Gatekeeper several times a day, so that part I know, but
> haven't tried it in a non-canonical language.
>
> Offhand, the only app I can think of that uses Python to create an app was
> the Zelda clone, but the repo's so big that each segment is zipped:
> https://github.com/clear-code-projects/Zelda - and I don't know if it was
> a signed app to begin with.
>
> Deirdre
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