pack as single executable

[koiuo]

It is a hassle to distribute and use utility like this as a python package. Single file executable would be amazing.

Executable should be shipped with all its dependencies (likely in a virtualenv, idk if there are other options in python).

There are some options available: zipapp, pyinstaller, shiv, etc..

So far I tried playing with zipapp and following issues block further progress:

• can't ship resources with the app. pkg_resources won't work from zipapp (can be workarounded by storing resources as strings in code)
• can't (easily) ship dependencies that have native code in them. 2 sub-issues here: ** for example, pyyaml has dependency to libyaml. Zipapp's virtualenv will contain libyaml built for architecture of the host, where executable was built. So no "cross-building" here and sems that vm is necessary. ** zipapp documentation says, that due to some limitation native libraries can'be shipped within zipapp at all (however pyyaml worked somehow for me. Haven't investiaged yet)
• ~~randrctl-auto script. It is a wrapper script that makes sure randrctl makes calls to xrandr under the user who owns X session (randrctl-auto is executed from udev rule and thus is always executed from root). I've seen python offers set_uid method in its api, so seems that it should be possible for randrctl to change the user.~~
• performance. Executing zipapp on my machine takes at least twice longer, than executing randrctl normally as python script.

Any suggestions or help implementing this are hightly appreciated.