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I tried this one a couple of years ago on two existing project (one fairly new product in development and one mature product) after some irritation with pyinsta

I tried this one a couple of years ago on two existing project (one fairly new product in development and one mature product) after some irritation with pyinstaller, etc. But ran into compatibility problems with most libraries we used (one application were a native QT-based and one were for web based on Falcon). Not sure how it looks today but if it's anything like before I'd recommend developing with it in mind from scratch if you want to use it.

baldfat 9y ago
Haven't peeked at using python since making portable executable programs was just so frustrating. How is Python now compared to a few years ago?
- edraferi 9y ago
  The Talk Python To Me podcast just did an episode on this [0] It's mainly an interview with Glyph (author of Twisted) about his PyCon 2016 talk "Shipping Software To Users With Python" [1] [0] https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/127/shipping-software-to-users https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/127/shipping-software-to... [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BqAeN-F9Qs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BqAeN-F9Qs
  - baldfat 9y ago
    Thanks. Good talk. He does say my favorite thing about Python. Python is the second best language for anything. I use R for stats now because that is mostly what I use for work and I use Racket because I can punch out a bug free easy to compile program in a short afternoon for everything else right now.
  - baldfat 9y ago
    After listening I have less hope this ever gets fixed.
- falcolas 9y ago
  > making portable executable programs was just so frustrating Hasn't changed much, but Docker has made many of the distribution problems more-or-less irrelevant (but only if you use Docker).
  - mwcampbell 9y ago
    Docker doesn't help when developing desktop apps.
    - baldfat 9y ago
      I have HIGH hopes that flatpak or snap will gain traction in Linux. This would in turn move Mac OS and Windows to a more container type system. (Mac OS is by far the closest right now)
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- KekDemaga 9y ago
  cx_Freeze works pretty well in my experience. https://cx-freeze.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ https://cx-freeze.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Twirrim 9y ago
Last time I looked at it, it didn't have full compatibility with python, which it looks like they have these days. Figure it may be worth another look.

baldfat 9y ago

Haven't peeked at using python since making portable executable programs was just so frustrating. How is Python now compared to a few years ago?

edraferi 9y ago
The Talk Python To Me podcast just did an episode on this [0] It's mainly an interview with Glyph (author of Twisted) about his PyCon 2016 talk "Shipping Software To Users With Python" [1] [0] https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/127/shipping-software-to-users https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/127/shipping-software-to... [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BqAeN-F9Qs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BqAeN-F9Qs
- baldfat 9y ago
  Thanks. Good talk. He does say my favorite thing about Python. Python is the second best language for anything. I use R for stats now because that is mostly what I use for work and I use Racket because I can punch out a bug free easy to compile program in a short afternoon for everything else right now.
- baldfat 9y ago
  After listening I have less hope this ever gets fixed.
falcolas 9y ago
> making portable executable programs was just so frustrating Hasn't changed much, but Docker has made many of the distribution problems more-or-less irrelevant (but only if you use Docker).
- mwcampbell 9y ago
  Docker doesn't help when developing desktop apps.
  - baldfat 9y ago
    I have HIGH hopes that flatpak or snap will gain traction in Linux. This would in turn move Mac OS and Windows to a more container type system. (Mac OS is by far the closest right now)
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KekDemaga 9y ago
cx_Freeze works pretty well in my experience. https://cx-freeze.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ https://cx-freeze.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Twirrim 9y ago

Last time I looked at it, it didn't have full compatibility with python, which it looks like they have these days. Figure it may be worth another look.