On 2020-11-24 00:05, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>I'm still confused what the point is of a zipapp, if it can't be a proper
point and click GUI thing, and it can't use any compiled extensions. How it is it
better than a console_script and a pip-installed package??
>
It CAN be a proper point-and-click GUI thing. You can have a fully
executable Python script if it has no dependencies (just distribute a
single .py file with a shebang at the top), and if you can't do that,
bundle it into a .pyz with zipapp and, again, put a shebang for posix
platforms. Windows, if the py.exe launcher is installed, will happily
let you double-click on a .py or .pyz and it'll run just fine.
I think by "proper point-and-click GUI thing" he meant the app itself
is a GUI app, not just "can be launched via the OS GUI". At least, that
is what I would mean by that, and that is what can't be done without C
extensions, because most GUI toolkits require C extensions.
--
Brendan Barnwell
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no
path, and leave a trail."
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