Py5 in a Single Folder or App Bundle

[vsquared]

Is it possible to put all the bits and pieces of py5 into a single folder? Or a py5.app bundle where all the requisite files are in the bundle; like MacOS apps do?

[villares]

The closer I got to this goal was on Windows sending people a Thonny portable package with a special Windows shortcut (or maybe a .bat file I can't remember) that would invoke Thonny's interpreter which had access to py5, the py5-run-sketch helper, and the bundled JDK and run my sketch (ignoring all the extra Thonny stuff). Worked only for Windows.

On another occasion I managed to make a simple sketch "distributable" following the instructions at https://py5coding.org/how_tos/pyinstaller.html but it was also a long time ago... And I don't remember the platforms I used. I think that for the Mac executable you have to be on a Mac to do it.

[vsquared]

pyinstaller seems to be robust enough to make py5 code distributable, but right now I'm having a problem getting all the requisite files, such as py5, py5_tools, javafx included in the app.bundle. Supposedly it's also code signed which is a big deal on macs.

[vsquared]

When we type 'import py5' what gets imported? Is py5.jar good enough or is there more to it? Would the py5 folder in Thonny plugins python site-packages work? Or maybe the py5 folder off of the github site: https://github.com/py5coding/py5/tree/main/py5/jars? It's over 22 MB.

[hx2A]

The py5.jar file is not enough by itself. It also needs a bunch of other jars and native libraries. And on MacOS, it does some other setup stuff using pyobjc so that py5 can work on that platform.