On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 10:23:10 +0000 Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 at 10:18, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > > > > On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 08:09:07 +0000 > > Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > But it's not as limiting as you suggest - it *does* preclude most > > > scientific use (because of numpy etc) but (for example) a large number > > > of web libraries are pure Python. > > > > Not sure what you mean here, but while Web frameworks themselves may be > > pure Python, you can have C accelerators in a template engine or in a > > ORM layer. Also, the database driver most likely isn't in pure Python > > (if you want it to be performant anyway). > > All I meant was that how limiting it is depends on what type of > application you're trying to write.
Sure, but the number of applications which don't depend whatsoever on non-stdlib C extensions is probably much smaller than you were trying to say. You should not fool yourself: the suggested "zipapp" (does it exist already? I lost track of the number of weird things that have been implemented in core Python in the name of packaging) would mostly be a non-solution. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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/7KYQ7SLTNNFIOEUHQSV2X64FNGFVGXEW/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
