Brénainn Woodsend

> If packaging is done right, wheels do not contain any examples, test suites, documentation, etc. That is the role of sdists. If packaging was done right, PyInstaller would be...

Your opt-in per-package flag is `--collect-data=package_name`.

Ughh. For pure pyproject.toml editable installs, instead of just creating a `.pth` file in site-packages which adds the project's parent directory to `sys.path`, it generates an elaborate *meta path* finder....

waf (the build system) has its own MSVC discovery so that `uses: ilammy/msvc-dev-cmd@v1` is just going to get in its way. Just remove that step and it should run fine.

Please don't post the same question in multiple places -- you're reaching the same people in both but now you're making the conversation harder to follow. Like I said in...

> On close, remove other/older folders in $TEMP\_MEI_$APP that are not $UNIQUE. That would mean that if you have two unrelated applications built by PyInstaller, they'd be forever deleting each...

> Is does sound like the way to go is using onedir mode and a good SFX library - from your experience with pyinstaller, can you recommend one by any...

I've never actually used one. I'm quite fond of 7zip though so I'd probably go with that if I had to pick without trying. Honestly, I never understood why people...

> A historic one is that earlier versions of Windows came without unzipping capabilities. I've just noticed that Windows 7 comes with zip file support. The oldest version of Python...

If you don't want to keep the extracted application out of the user's sight/way then why wouldn't you just put a onedir bundle into an archive?