This package is a very lightweight wrapper around several PYME applications (see http://python-microscopy.org) and related python applications to make them easily accessible in the usual mac GUI environment. Instead of getting into mac framework GUI coding I was able to bypass all that and use the excellent platypus developer tool by Sveinbjörn Þórðarson. The current installation on my system was built and tested with platypus version 5.2.
The installation based on platypus offers a very unix like mode of usage where GUI apps are constructed by calling the command line version of platypus, so that all apps can be built from a makefile that calls the platypus command line interface. As a result building the interfaces is very easy once you installed Platypus and its command line tool.
The few scripts that are needed are generated by a short Python script that expands variables as required so that paths, environments, etc can be simply set and changed.
The wrappers also include app wrappers around the jupyter notebook server and a launcher so that iPython notebooks can be openend
by doubleclicking in the finder on the associated .ipynb files. This was something that had bugged me for while.
A few variables can be edited in the Makefile, such as the PATH used by the shell scripts, to match this to your local system.
This path needs to enable the python environment for which you installed PYME, or alternatively, have all the paths needed
to start the appropriate virtual environment. The examples show how to use a virtualenv in which you
may have built a PYME version.
Installation should be as easy as downloading the repository, cd into is directory once unpacked and start the make process:
# in your terminal type:
make
Install platypus and its command line interface. To install the command line tool you start platypus as GUI,
select Preferences and there have the option to install the command line tool using the dialogue box that comes up.