On 5/28/2015 12:44 PM, Donald Stufft wrote:
I do think single-file executables are an important piece to Python's long-term competitiveness.
I completely agree. I talk to a lot of people about packaging of things, and while I think there are some serious problems with huge parts of Go’s packaging and distribution story the static linking and compiling down to a “single” file is not one of them.
How about the following compromise between assuming the presence of installed python and ignoring the possibility of installed python: we provide (as least for Windows) a C startup file that checks for the needed version of python and offers to download and start the installer if not present. A user would see 'Python 3.5 is needed to run this file; shall I download and install it?' just once on a particular machine.