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No, Docker is not right for this, mostly because Docker does not actually run on Mac; it runs on a Linux VM. MacOS doesn't really support containers. I would suggest looking at Homebrew.
containers on mac go through a VM Many, many developers use Docker on Mac without issue There is Docker Desktop and Colima you can use
This sounds like a horribly bloated stack. Might it be possible to compile the Python part into a lib that the Java app can access? And then package the Java app as a distributable, maybe with a JRE bundled?
This sounds like a horribly bloated stack. Might it be possible to compile the Python part into a lib that the Java app can access? And then package the Java app as a distributable, maybe with a JRE bundled?
Thanks solardev, I've managed to get Java out of the stack replacing it with a Python package. Still horrible but not bloated anymore :). Now I'm looking for options to package a Python app, that seems to be way easier, so many new things for me here
If your audience is developers (or similarly tech-savvy), that's probably enough to package it up as `brew install my_pdf_parser` for Macs (and Chocolatey for Windows) and have them take care of the Python deps.
If you're going for a mainstream desktop app though, that's a bit harder, but there's stuff like https://pyinstaller.org/en/stable/ (edit: as you already mentioned in another comment, lol)
For Python, you'd use something like Py2App or whatever the current thing is. And Py2Exe for Windows.
https://py2app.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
https://pypi.org/project/py2exe/
PS: I typed your question into GPT 4 verbatim and it pointed me to PyInstaller, as well.
As other comments have mentioned, this isn't what Docker is for. For Python, you'd use something like Py2App or whatever the current thing is. And Py2Exe for Windows. https://py2app.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ https://pypi.org/project/py2exe/ PS: I typed your question into GPT 4 verbatim and it pointed me to PyInstaller, as well. https://pyinstaller.org/en/stable/