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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?
by 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 agoThe 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 agoThanks. 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 agoAfter 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 agoDocker doesn't help when developing desktop apps.
- baldfat 9y agoI 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 agocx_Freeze works pretty well in my experience. https://cx-freeze.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ https://cx-freeze.readthedocs.io/en/latest/