> On 24 Nov 2020, at 11:58, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote:
>
> 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.
This already exists, see <https://docs.python.org/3/library/zipapp.html
<https://docs.python.org/3/library/zipapp.html>>
It is basically a zipped up directory with an ``__main__.py``. This works for
some applications, but is not comparable to py2exe/py2app/pyinstaller/….
IMHO any changes to CPython for this should be solutions for clear problems
that are best fixed in the core, preferably along side changes to the
prospective
users of those changes to ensure that the changes are actually useful.
Ronald
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