> On 19 Nov 2020, at 08:48, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 at 07:42, Stéfane Fermigier <s...@fermigier.com> wrote: > >> But cooperation between the PyInstaller team and the Python Packaging >> Authority, if this doesn't happen already, could probably help. > > It doesn't, but that is simply because the PyInstaller team have never > reached out *asking* to be involved with the PyPA. I for one would be > delighted to see installer projects (PyInstaller, cx_freeze, py2exe, > probably others too) getting involved, discussing interoperability, > working out better ways of addressing the needs of people who want > "standalone" Python applications, etc.
+1 (as the maintainer of py2app, yet another tool in this space). FWIW I don’t think that bundling any of these tools with Python is useful at this time. It would be useful to cooperate on possible changes to CPython and the packaging landscape to make it easier to write tools like this. Ronald — Twitter / micro.blog: @ronaldoussoren Blog: https://blog.ronaldoussoren.net/ _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/PKJ5MHGFBP6YCMNB3X6GNMYW73HTJ222/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
