Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2021 17:42:54 +0100From: Christof Ressi <info@christofressi.com>You can always distribute Pd along your project and have a simple top-level shell script resp. batch script which opens your main patch with the bundled Pd version. Give the script a nice icon and off you go :-)
This is mainly what I do and would be my first suggestion as well.
The downside is that on Windows and macOS you get a visible terminal
window, but there are workarounds.
This is less of a problem if it's for an installation or specific users.
I don't know about this tool, but I imagine it does the same as the mac/osx-app.sh script included with the Pd sources. I wrote that script heavily borrowing from a script of the same name written for the Inkscape project.
Alex: If the question is really "hey, can we have that 'make an app' option that Pd-extended had?" then it perhaps makes sense to first look at the code in Pd-extended which did this action:
which calls
I imagine it could be ported to a gui plugin that would create a standalone "app" using the version of Pd and the current platform. As Christof mentions, it's basically copying the Pd install into a new folder and renaming some stuff. For Mac, that folder is the .app bundle and follows a rather strict layout. This could reasonably be extended for Windows and Linux.