Enabling Easy Zipapp Installs on Windows | Snakes on Callisto

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Enabling Easy Zipapp Installs on Windows | Snakes on Callisto

How to prepare a Windows system for a good PYZ experience.

https://jhermann.github.io/blog/python/deployment/2020/02/29/python_zippapps_on_windows.html

[jfinkhaeuser]

So zipapps are PEX without the interpreter bundled?

[jhermann]

Sort of, yes. But bundling an interpreter with a PEX is optional anyway – which is a good thing, since you can make a PEX multi-platform (all extensions for all requested platforms are included then).

What these tools add on top of core zipapps is the bundling of extensions, and having their bootstrap code in __main__ unpack them to a filesystem cache, so the OS can bind them.