On Fri, 3 Jan 2020, 02:50 Barry Scott, <ba...@barrys-emacs.org> wrote:
> Expect for trivial programs you cannot distribute a single file python exe > for windows. > You can, PyInstaller does it. You can have folder-based or single file apps As you found zipapp is not a solution. > Zipapp is a good candidate. Proposing to improve it > Many stdlib modules use DLL's on Windows and you cannot run a DLL from > inside a zip file. > PyInstaller's -F mode does it well But, this proposal is not about native executables. It's about a .jar like executable. As a python-specific 'executable', os is not a problem unless of course you are using like curses on windows -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list