python-portable-macos

An attempt to make a portable version of Python for macOS in order to pack Python applications into self-contained executables.

Includes scripts to build Python and package it into a Mac Application Bundle.

Travis CI is used to build and package it, output files are temporary stored (only for two weeks) in the wonderful https://transfer.sh service. To download individual commits you need to find the unique transfer.sh URL at the end of the Travis build log:

$ cat output_urls.txt
https://transfer.sh/K3Hef/python3-only.zip
https://transfer.sh/4wYXQ/python3-only-reduced.zip
https://transfer.sh/xuxaL/mu-portable.zip
https://transfer.sh/LOoqY/Mu-Installer.dmg

The command "cat output_urls.txt" exited with 0.

Things to do/test

See if the SSL module works well in other platforms (pip install should be a good test) that do not have any version of OpenSSL installed
Figure out a good test suit for Python standard library
Figure out more files that can be safely removed from the Python build to reduce size
Figure out if pymalloc version (python3.6m) is worth using and/or safe with current Mu dependencies
Test in older macOS versions than 10.13 High Sierra
Test in 10.9 Mavericks (Compile flag for 10.9, Travis environment uses 10.10 Yosemite)
Simple PyQt5 test works, Mu fails to open, likely an exception is raised, so need to investigate
Create a background PNG image for the DMG folder