> On 19 Nov 2020, at 20:17, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 02:05:02AM +1300, Greg Ewing wrote: >> On 20/11/20 12:24 am, Chris Angelico wrote: >>> >>> Have you considered the value of using zipapp >> >>> You get all the advantages of a single runnable file, and >>> all the advantages of NOT including the full Python interpreter with >>> it.
It is questionable if not including the interpreter is an advantage. One use case for tools like pyinstaller to to ship applications to end users. Having to install some kind of runtime before being able to use an application is not an advantage in that case. >> >> It won't have all the properties of an app bundle on MacOSX, though. > > Firstly, does that matter? And secondly, what would it take to give it > those additional properties? It does if you want to create a GUI application that feels like a native application. A native bundle can have an icon, file associations, be signed, …. Adding those requires shipping as a .app bundle, which is a directory with a particular structure. Ronald — Twitter / micro.blog: @ronaldoussoren Blog: https://blog.ronaldoussoren.net/ _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/UOVGOFXDQN7Z7DUYWEJMATSQ7KF3SZFO/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
