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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/17/2015 1:40 PM, Barry Warsaw
wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">I agree, for deployment to environments where you can guarantee that the basic
Python infrastructure is available. It may not be though, and perhaps we can
relegate that to py2exe, cx_freeze, and friends, although I would say that
having such support built into Python would be very cool, and of high value to
our users.
That's not to play down the usefulness of good executable zip support, pared
of the stdlib and interpreter. OTOH, it would be nice to think ahead, where
the same tool could generate both types of single-file executables.</pre>
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Thinking ahead? Novel idea! My dream scheme...<br>
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A scheme for putting all the pure- Python modules (mostly user code)
into a .pyz, and a concurrent scheme for putting all the non-pure-
Python modules (maybe even Python itself, for platforms that are
missing the necessary version of Python 3), into some other
platform-dependent bundle.<br>
<br>
User instructions then become... try the .pyz, if it doesn't work,
install the platform-dependent bundle and then it will.<br>
<br>
So one could build up a platform-dependent bundle that contains all
stuff used in development of various projects, and have easy user
instructions for deployment of various .pyz apps.<br>
<br>
Longer instructions for people that think they know what they are
doing would list the version of Python and the versions of the
various dependencies in the platform-dependent bundle, if they wish
to install them manually, etc.<br>
<br>
I suppose licensing might, in some cases, conflict with making a
single bundle for some modules and platforms.<br>
<br>
I'm already doing the .pyz apps, using .py extensions, but don't
have the other piece in place.... it's harder, and I haven't
acquired the skill set for putting the binary chunks together...
other than unzipping to the filesystem.<br>
<br>
Glenn<br>
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