> That's essentially like Java's JRE. For what it's worth, on my PC the > JRE is 196M in size. Whereas a full Python distribution is only 94M, > and the embedded distribution is 15M. So I think Python already has > that, more or less.
I hadn't realised that, so thanks :) > But my experience with the JRE is that very few applications actually > use the "centralised" JRE, preferring to ship an embedded JRE. So the > evidence from the Java world is that managing a central "runtime > engine" is not actually as convenient as we're assuming, and the > arguments for it simply aren't compelling in the real world. (Unix may > have a different picture - there's a much stronger culture there of > "depend on system packages" :shrug:) > Paul I imagine there would be a way to have an install install the runner if there is not one on the machine, and use the existing one if there is, and creating a venv in either case. Meaning that using the equivalent of an embedded JRE would be obsolete, no? I suppose my point is that having a utility for launching a python app from the desktop may be sufficient for a lot of use cases. _______________________________________________ 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/WENUAOE5DJHM27MDX2M4MF4VHMLMMIBL/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
