On 7 February 2017 at 14:29, Steve Dower <steve.do...@python.org> wrote: > You can leave python.exe out of your distribution to avoid it showing up on > PATH, or if your stub explicitly LoadLibrary's vcruntime140.dll and then > python36.dll you should be able to put them wherever you like.
Understood, but I may need python.exe present if the script uses multiprocessing, so I'm trying to avoid doing that (while I'm doing things manually, I can do what I like, obviously, but a generic "build my app" tool has to be a bit more cautious). LoadLibrary might work (I'm only calling Py_Main). I seem to recall trying this before and having issues but that might have been an earlier iteration which made more complex use of the C API. Also, I want to load python3.dll (the stable ABI) as I don't want to have to rebuild the stub once for each Python version, or have to search for the correct DLL in C. But I'll definitely give that a go. > I think what we really want is a self-extractor that "installs" into the > user's AppData directory without prompting for admin. I'm seeing more apps > about like this and I think it's the right model for Python. My goal is explicitly self-contained applications - the "xcopy deployment" model. I'm looking for things that can be used in *very* constrained environments (no install ability, possibly not even any access to locations outside of My Documents). > We probably > want to include the Electron shell as well, or make it trivially easy to add > (I've been using a built-in Windows tool that is similar, but it's not > ideal). There's a real chance we could have very modern, cross-platform > Python apps with this approach. I presume you mean http://electron.atom.io/? I've never used it, but again my goal is essentially command line apps here. Definitely "pure Python" apps. I don't know how I'd use electron from a Python script, but I'm guessing you're looking more at targeting GUI apps with traditional installers? It's an interesting area (GUI interfaces have always been a rough edge in Python development) but not one I am looking at at the moment. (Offtopic, but are there any tutorials on building apps using Python and Electron, as it sounds like an interesting thing to investigate). Paul _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
