On Fri, 3 Jan 2020, 00:33 Chris Angelico, <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > A jar is just an archive of Java class files. It's approximately > equivalent to a zip file of .pyc files. >
Exactly the idea, that's why i said zipapp might be a good candidate No, but there are package managers for Windows and Mac too. (I don't > think there's any first-party package manager for Macs, but there are > some very popular third-party ones eg Homebrew.) > > ... > > And that's the problem: the single-file executable requires you to > bundle everything, update it yourself, and duplicate all the code > everywhere. > > Using a package manager means you have ONE copy of the Python > interpreter, and all your scripts depend on it. If you update that > interpreter, ALL scripts benefit from the update. This is a solved > problem. > I am not proposing native executables, but a .jar like executable. The term executable refers to one click run. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
