On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 9:57 AM Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > > On 20/11/20 11:32 am, Chris Angelico wrote: > > It's very > > tempting to think "oh, I could just make it easier for my users, and > > then they don't have to think about anything". But what happens when > > there's a security patch for Python? Are they going to continue to not > > > think about the dependency? > > There seems to be an assumption here that having a natively > installable app automatically means bundling everything, > including the Python executable. It doesn't have to be that > way. There's no reason the installed app can't use a > previously installed Python or other libraries. > > I still think it would be useful to have some kind of basic > installer-creating functionality in the stdlib. Not bundling > Python could be the default, or even the only option if > you're that concerned about it. >
You mean... zipapp? 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/KGFLTFMN4RWR5N5PTOABOOMW3VU3KP2A/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
