On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 8:57 PM Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au> wrote: > > Disclaimer: I'm not arguing for or against having pyinstaller or the > like in the stdlib. Probably slightly against. Anyway... > > On 19Nov2020 15:59, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > >Producing native executables is an attractive nuisance. [...stuff...] > > To me, the beauty of things like pyinstaller is that they produce a > _complete_ package/bundle/executable which you can just use. More to the > point, that you can hand to someone else to use. >
Have you considered the value of using zipapp rather than creating a native binary for every platform you want to support? That way, it's still a single package/bundle, and it can have a shebang that means it's executable using an already-installed Python binary (and on Windows, I believe *.pyz gets associated with the Python launcher by default, but I could be wrong). Also, zipapp is part of the Python standard library (and has been since 3.5; any proposal for a new addition to the stdlib will be from 3.10 or 3.11 at the very earliest). You get all the advantages of a single runnable file, and all the advantages of NOT including the full Python interpreter with it. Hence my statement that *native executable* creation is an attractive nuisance. Many many people think that they need to create a .exe file, when really what they want is "a thing that people can double-click on and it has all the code", which is adequately covered by a .pyz executable. ChrisA _______________________________________________ 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/RGFINALPWYZ4ESV3I75TL7RI34HLSNFC/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
