Greetings list,

Since the thread is revolving around Zipapps,

this thread might be useful:

The elaboration by Andrew Svetlov gives a full idea of how

PyInstaller works. Not very clean for sure, though i have not

seen other approaches. On the other hands if the use case is

strong enough then it warrants it's use.

After the above thread I contacted a number of Zipapp-related persons

including the author of Shiv ( Loren Carvalho ) who was kind enough to reply.

Along the conversation he stated that

> In fact, shiv itself sort of breaks a fundamental assumption about zipapps:

that they remain zipped! shiv pyz files extract themselves on execution,

for a myriad of reasons.

Considering the 3 enhancements proposed by Mr Moore, i'd say that

zipapps needs a tidbit twerking to be a great packaging solution.

A successful zip-based packaged format is the JAR (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAR_(file_format)).

JSmooth is a tool for converting JARs into EXEs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSmooth

Might give some leads

Though this thread suggests adding the natural abilities of turning python

projects into executables, doing so via zipapps is an option i haven't considered.

And it does not seem like it's for tomorrow.

Kind Regards,

Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer

Mauritius