PyAppImage 🐍

Create optimized Python AppImages, faster!

Getting Started

The project is still in beta. Consider reporting bugs to help development and release a stable version;

Download pyappimage

• Choose the Python Version. Currently, the supported Python versions are 3.6, 3.7 and 3.8. These AppImages are built using python-appimage which includes the Python Interpreter. See why not pyappimage section for more details. Corresponding to the python version, binaries will be built, using [PyInstaller] (https://github.com/PyInstaller/PyInstaller) and are processed to make the necessary changes.

• Get the latest pyappimage.AppImage to begin development

PyAppImage tutorial

Here are some small tutorials to package some applications, and to workaround bugs when packaging software

1. Hello World AppImage
2. Packaging Archivy
3. Packaging AppImageLint

Configuration parameters

pyappimage can be configured using the following parameters

entrypoint

Entrypoint is a path to the function. It is normally in the format

folder.script:function

here, the function located in script file, of which the script file is located in the folder called folder is executed.

Environment Variables

Environment variables can be set before the appimage entrypoint is called. This can be useful in defining AppImage based variables or conditionally executing some functions when the app is being run within an appimage,

environment: 
  HELLO: TEST

This will be translated to

export HELLO=TEST

Include additional data to AppImage

These are data objects, including items like png, json, txt items which you would like to place in the AppImage. Just simple add

data: 
  $CWD/somefile/photo.png: $APPIMAGE/photo.png
  /usr/share/icons/myphoto.svg: $APPIMAGE/icons/icon.png

Custom Icon

Place <appname>.png in the pyappimage directory, and it will be automatically set as the AppImage dir icon.

Custom Desktop File

pyappimage automatically generates the desktop file for you. If you want to override the desktop file generated by pyappimage, you can add a <appname>.desktop desktop file in the pyappimage directory, and that will be added. Make sure that your desktop file matches FreeDesktop's standards.

When to use pyappimage ?

Use pyappimage when

• You are creating a command line application
• Your application has reached beta stage
• If you have intermediate coding skills on Python
• You are writing an Hello World Application which does not need the entire Python interpreter
• If you are worried about the huge python appimage
• If you are highly experienced with PyInstaller or nuitka

Do not use pyappimage when

• If your project is still in alpha
• If your project requirements are not properly written
• If you do not have a setup.py
• If you are building a Qt Application? (needs more references. PyQt pyappimage weighed 119 MB on guiscrcpy, so the difference is very tiney)

Similar projects

Awesome AppImage Python development tools provide a list of Awesome tools to speed up distributing your python apps. Do check them out. pyappimage-*.AppImage which you use to build your optimized Python AppImages itself use @niess 's python-appimage. Because pyappimage needs a real python interpreter to bundle Python appimages for you!

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2020 Srevin Saju

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(c) Srevin Saju 2020

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