From 822efa5695b5ba6c2316c1400e4e9ec2546f7ea5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Miss Islington (bot)" <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Thu, 21 May 2020 16:34:46 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] [doc] Remove references to obsolete BuildApplet on macOS. (GH-20023) (cherry picked from commit 7864f11cdf12807555d62c7a132c191eb41ecc02) Co-authored-by: Andre Delfino --- Doc/using/mac.rst | 10 ++-------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/using/mac.rst b/Doc/using/mac.rst index b411fa28204..0253625f369 100644 --- a/Doc/using/mac.rst +++ b/Doc/using/mac.rst @@ -27,9 +27,8 @@ What you get after installing is a number of things: * A :file:`Python 3.8` folder in your :file:`Applications` folder. In here you find IDLE, the development environment that is a standard part of official - Python distributions; PythonLauncher, which handles double-clicking Python - scripts from the Finder; and the "Build Applet" tool, which allows you to - package Python scripts as standalone applications on your system. + Python distributions; and PythonLauncher, which handles double-clicking Python + scripts from the Finder. * A framework :file:`/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework`, which includes the Python executable and libraries. The installer adds this location to your shell @@ -159,11 +158,6 @@ https://riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/intro. Distributing Python Applications on the Mac =========================================== -The "Build Applet" tool that is placed in the MacPython 3.6 folder is fine for -packaging small Python scripts on your own machine to run as a standard Mac -application. This tool, however, is not robust enough to distribute Python -applications to other users. - The standard tool for deploying standalone Python applications on the Mac is :program:`py2app`. More information on installing and using py2app can be found at http://undefined.org/python/#py2app.