scripts: Remove macOS symlinking

Seems to be fixed in PyInstaller 4.4? See #6611.

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 19 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/dev/build_release.py b/scripts/dev/build_release.py
index a1c6646eb..04a981199 100755
--- a/scripts/dev/build_release.py
+++ b/scripts/dev/build_release.py
@@ -225,25 +225,6 @@ def patch_mac_app():
     with open(plist_path, "wb") as f:
         plistlib.dump(plist_data, f)
 
-    # Replace some duplicate files by symlinks
-    framework_path = os.path.join(app_path, 'Contents', 'MacOS', 'PyQt5',
-                                  'Qt', 'lib', 'QtWebEngineCore.framework')
-
-    core_lib = os.path.join(framework_path, 'Versions', '5', 'QtWebEngineCore')
-    os.remove(core_lib)
-    core_target = os.path.join(*[os.pardir] * 7, 'MacOS', 'QtWebEngineCore')
-    os.symlink(core_target, core_lib)
-
-    framework_resource_path = os.path.join(framework_path, 'Resources')
-    for name in os.listdir(framework_resource_path):
-        file_path = os.path.join(framework_resource_path, name)
-        target = os.path.join(*[os.pardir] * 5, name)
-        if os.path.isdir(file_path):
-            shutil.rmtree(file_path)
-        else:
-            os.remove(file_path)
-        os.symlink(target, file_path)
-
 
 INFO_PLIST_UPDATES = {
     'CFBundleVersion': qutebrowser.__version__,