On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 10:23:10 +0000 Paul Moore p.f.moore@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 at 10:18, Antoine Pitrou solipsis@pitrou.net wrote:
On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 08:09:07 +0000 Paul Moore p.f.moore@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.