D6754: contrib: proof of concept script to build Mac packages without system python

[indygreg (Gregory Szorc)]

indygreg added a comment.


  This looks promising.
  
  I don't want to tell you not to work on this, but my bold plan is to get Mercurial using PyOxidizer and leaning on PyOxidizer for packaging. This will require shipping a Python 3 Mercurial, however.
  
  Until PyOxidizer is ready, you may want to look into Beeware's Briefcase tool for packaging macOS applications. It also provides its own self-contained Python distribution. I'm not sure if it works with Python 2.7, however.
  
  You may also be interested in https://github.com/indygreg/python-build-standalone for self-contained Python distributions. Only works with Python 3.7+ at the moment now, though. The pre-built distributions on GitHub having a working Python install in them. All the Python C extensions are statically linked into the `python` executable.

INLINE COMMENTS

> make_osx.sh:16
> +# TODO: Don't install this into the virtual environment. Also, use docutils-python3
> +python -m pip install docutils
> +

We should be pinning versions and hashes when installing anything from the network. For reproducibility and security.

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