Python, Be Bold!

[Grant Edwards]

On 2020-01-02, Michael Torrie <torriem at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/2/20 2:11 PM, Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer wrote:
>> But single file are better suited for distribution.
>
> Maybe.  Most windows applications are distributed with installers.

Definitely.

Single file executables aren't really "a thing" on Windows.

> [...]
> I haven't seen very many single-exe windows applications ever.

Putty is still made available as a single file executable.  But, it's
the only one I've seen for a couple decades.

AFAICT, 99.999% of Windows apps are distributed as an .msi file or as
a self-extracting installer (e.g. foobar-1.2.3-setup.exe) file.  If
that's what you want to do with your python app, then you can use
cx_freeze et alia.  Packagining something for wide distribution can be
a bit a fiddly to get right: you need to know what you're doing, and
you need to do a lot of testing.

But that's true regardless of OS or language.

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