Re: Application Distribution using Embeddable Zip on Windows

2020-06-17 Thread Palash Bauri
Well , I didn't know that single scripts can be used to associate filetypes. I will test it out. Currently I'm doing an experiment with Embeddable distribution , Writing a launcher with rust. I have no idea what's the efficient or correct way to do it. Let's hope for the best. I think they should'

Re: Application Distribution using Embeddable Zip on Windows

2020-06-17 Thread Palash Bauri
Well, that crossed my mind earlier, but as my program is a text parser and has it's own input & output source filetype, it should have those filetypes associated with the program. Just using an MSI installer will not do that trick. ~Palash Bauri On Wed, 17 Jun 2020, 7:18 pm Shakil Khan, wrote:

Re: Application Distribution using Embeddable Zip on Windows

2020-06-17 Thread Palash Bauri
Well , in some cases that is true, but in my program's case that's not true as it's targetting not-so-much tech savvy users. I would like to make an compact plug-and-play solution. And , I think using Python Embeddable zip and a custom launcher will be more suitable for my program. On 6/17/20, Ch

Re: Application Distribution using Embeddable Zip on Windows

2020-06-17 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 9:09 PM Palash Bauri wrote: > > > Try creating a .pyz file using the zipapp module: > > > https://docs.python.org/3/library/zipapp.html > > > It should 'just work', out of the box. > > > ChrisA > > But I will still need to build a launcher or put a Python Interpreter > at u

Re: Application Distribution using Embeddable Zip on Windows

2020-06-17 Thread Palash Bauri
> Try creating a .pyz file using the zipapp module: > https://docs.python.org/3/library/zipapp.html > It should 'just work', out of the box. > ChrisA But I will still need to build a launcher or put a Python Interpreter at users' path in order to run .pyz files. -- https://mail.python.org/mail

Re: Application Distribution using Embeddable Zip on Windows

2020-06-17 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 5:00 PM Palash Bauri wrote: > > I am developing a parser with PLY and was hoping to distribute it to users. > Ofcourse there're plenty of Ways to build a executable of an Python script > such as PyInstaller , Py2Exe and some others, but they have their problems > , one of t

Application Distribution using Embeddable Zip on Windows

2020-06-17 Thread Palash Bauri
I am developing a parser with PLY and was hoping to distribute it to users. Ofcourse there're plenty of Ways to build a executable of an Python script such as PyInstaller , Py2Exe and some others, but they have their problems , one of them which is their output distribution size is huge, a simple "