On 28 May 2015 at 19:22, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Unfortunately (and believe me, I've been down this road many times) on >> Windows *only* the exe format is a "first-class" executable. >> Executable scripts and shebangs are very useful, but there are always >> corner cases where they don't work *quite* like an exe. On Windows, >> you have to be prepared to ship an exe if you want to compete with >> languages that generate exes. > > I'm aware of that. When I said "a tiny stub", I was thinking in terms > of a small executable. The idea is that its sole purpose is to locate > Python someplace else, and chain to it; that has to be actual > executable code, complete with the 512-byte "MZ" header and > everything, to ensure compatibility. But it should be able to be > small, tight, and easy to verify correctness of, so there aren't (in > theory!) security exploits in the header itself.
OK, cool. I'm sort of working on that as a bit of a side project - a tiny stub exe that you can prepend to a Python zipapp which runs it via the standard embedding APIs. It's little more than an idea at the moment, but I don't think it'll be too hard to implement... Paul _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
