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Platypus

Platypus is a developer tool for the Mac OS X operating system. It creates native Mac OS X applications from interpreted scripts such as shell scripts or Perl, Ruby and Python programs.

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  • Free
  • Open Source

Platforms

  • Mac
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Features

  1.  Support for scripting

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  • jol commented on Platypus

    very good professional software that we were happy to find to create an installer for our easy-install versions of our holistic business and practice management soultrade software solutions (Crystalsolutions, PraxisClinic and Soletrader)

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jol
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very good professional software that we were happy to find to create an installer for our easy-install versions of our holistic business and practice management soultrade software solutions (Crystalsolutions, PraxisClinic and Soletrader)

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Easy to put shell scripts into application packages. Besides various interfaces may be chosen - progress bar, droplet, text window and others.

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What is Platypus?

Platypus is a developer tool for the Mac OS X operating system. It creates native Mac OS X applications from interpreted scripts such as shell scripts or Perl, Ruby and Python programs. This is done by wrapping the script in an application bundle along with a native executable binary that runs the script.

Platypus makes it easy for you to share your scripts and programs with those unfamiliar with the command line interface, without any knowledge of the Mac OS X APIs -- a few clicks and you will have your own Mac OS X graphical program. Creating installers, maintenance applications, login items, launchers, automations and droplets is very easy using Platypus.

Features:

  • Supports shell scripts, Perl, Python, PHP, Ruby, Expect, Tcl, AppleScript or any other user-specified interpreter
  • Can execute scripts with administrator privileges via Apple's Security Framework
  • Can display graphical feedback of script execution as progress bar, text window with script output, droplet, WebKit HTML rendering or status item menu
  • Dragging and dropping files or text snippets on application, which are then passed to the script as arguments
  • Can create applications that run in the background (LSUIElement)
  • Set own application icon or select from presets
  • App bundle configuration for associated file types, identifier, version, author, etc.
  • Graphical interface for bundling support files with script
  • Command line tool for automation
  • "Profiles" which can be used to save configurations
  • Built-in script editor, or linking with external editor of choice
  • Extensive documentation and many built-in examples to help you get started.