Daniel Holth <dholth <at> gmail.com> writes:
> file.write(module.random_attribute.decode('base64')). The runnable zip
> feature is awesome, not well enough known, and totally worth promoting
> over the shar pattern; with some minimal tooling you'd be good to go.
Runnable zips sound great - I certainly haven't come across them before (or if
I have, I didn't see the potential at the time).
That said, from a Windows perspective, shebangs and mixed text/binary files
worry me. The better approach on Windows would be to take a new extension
(.pyz? .pyp[ackage]?) and associate that with the launcher. (File extensions on
Windows are the moral equivalent of shebang lines.)
Changing .zip in any way will upset anyone who has a utility for opening ZIP
files (i.e. everyone) and there's no way to launch files differently based on
content without changing that association. And, I'm almost certain that most if
not all existing ZIP tools on Windows will fail to open files with a shebang,
since they've never had to deal with them.
I also think that a runnable zip may be a better package installation option
than MSIs, but that's another issue :)
Cheers,
Steve
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