Good analysis by Lloyd, but I would love the beauty of Pyinstaller to be available on mobile platforms. It would be a killer app if it could be done.
Laurence. ############################################################### Laurence ANTHONY, Ph.D. Professor Center for English Language Education in Science and Engineering (CELESE) Faculty of Science and Engineering Waseda University 3-4-1 Okubo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan E-mail: [email protected] WWW: http://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/ ############################################################### On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 9:39 PM, Lloyd Konneker <[email protected]> wrote: > I think this issue is a dead end and that the answer (given early in this > thread) "it is out of scope" is correct. > > Pyinstaller has never been a cross-compiler, but that is what is needed > for Android, since there is not such a thing as a native Android > development machine. You always develop for Android in a non-Android > environment (as far as I know.) > > The thing that Pyinstaller does (package a bootloader and an archive of > all needed libraries) is duplicated by other projects for the Android > platform. For example, PyDroid and android-python27 projects both bundle a > bootloader (written in Java) that unpacks the Python interpreter and other > scripts from an archive, sets up an environment, and executes the Python > interpreter. So my advice to others wanting to port Python apps to Android > is to start with one of those tools. (However, in my experience, those > tools are much less mature than Pyinstaller and poorly documented. It has > been a struggle for me to understand how to use those tools.) > > Only if the Pyinstaller project were willing to generalize (allow for > cross-packaging and allow for bootloaders in other languages) would this > idea make sense. And that doesn't make economic sense since probably most > apps are not intended for mobile, and most app development for mobile is > not in Python. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "PyInstaller" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pyinstaller. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PyInstaller" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pyinstaller. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
