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Interestingly this detail may be wrong, but the status quo is much worse. Packaging Python applications is enormously painful, and they often fail to install (o
by throwaway894345 4y ago
Interestingly this detail may be wrong, but the status quo is much worse. Packaging Python applications is enormously painful, and they often fail to install (or worse, a runtime error) if you’re not on a mainstream distro. And then there is the performance…
- hiccuphippo 4y agoPipx might be the easiest way to get your application running on any platform that can run Python without caring about distro/OS specific packaging. And if you don't want to push your package to pypi, you can install with pipx directly from a git repo.
- formerly_proven 4y agoThis is the general issue of distributing dynamically linked binaries on Linux and not really due to Python itself. On Windows you can generate a folder with a bunch of files in it along an .exe that starts your app pretty easily and that'll work in most places just fine and is not excessively large, either.