Well, it is important to emphasise that I am not using electron-packager. I had a python "build script" (same script runs in windows, linux and os x) that would build other stuff independent to my electron app, then if running on mac it would copy everything into the general OS X app bundle directories, and finally zip everything into a single file.

So, in my specific case there were two issues with my script, I was copying the electron files without respecting symlinks (very easy to fix), and then the zipfile module in Python was not respecting the symlinks either, which was not as easy as I expected. If you google solutions to the problem you'll find a few articles with odd implementations that were closer to magic than a real explanation, so after some time unsuccessfully trying to get it to work I ended up just running a subprocess that executes the os x zip CLI command with the required flags for respecting symlinks.

Expected app bundle size? #2003

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