On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 at 11:32, Mathew Elman <mathew.el...@ocado.com> wrote: > 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?
Maybe? No-one has actually done that, so either it's harder than you're imagining, or no-one with the knowledge to do it is actually that interested in doing anything about it... > 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. I'm not sure if desktop apps or command line apps are the most important, TBH. Probably depends on the user base. But in general, yes. Paul _______________________________________________ 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/CPFR5PFXH4TMO2V4J4QY6EN2XG4ETVTA/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
