Installer

Norbert Preining norbert at preining.info
Wed Apr 27 13:05:41 CEST 2022


Hi Milan,

> At the moment I am looking into two install packagers namely nuitka and

Don't worry about this *now*, there are many more important things to be
done. Packaging Python programs can be done later, have done it before.

> If we were to use this, no additional things would need to be added and a
> single executable would be the result.

But that is only supported on a limited number of platforms. AFAIR these
bundlers don't support - say - Cygwin, or NetBSD, or ...

> No platform specific distributions of a decompressor should be bundled
> manually.

Are you sure about that? You weren't sure in your last email whether an
external or internal xz(-library) was used. Anyway, also this is topic
for much later.

All the best

Norbert

PS: I will be more or less offline for a week due to extended holidays
here in Japan. Please ping me after May 8 in case there is something I
should look into.

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