Creating a executable of ScanCode-toolkit

[SrikanthShyamanur]

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Creating a executable of ScanCode-toolkit

Possible Labels

• installation and packaging
• new feature

Select Category

• [x] Enhancement
• [ ] Add License/Copyright
• [ ] Scan Feature
• [x] Packaging
• [ ] Documentation
• [ ] Expand Support
• [ ] Other

Describe the Update

To run ScanCode independent of python environment. So we can eliminate the prerequisites.

How This Feature will help you/your organization

It will help all.

Possible Solution/Implementation Details

We can try to create ScanCode executable using pyinstaller.

Can you help with this Feature

Difficult, I am new to Python. I will try it for myself, If I get positive results I will share and help further.

[pombredanne]

@SrikanthShyamanur Thanks! @Abhishek-Dev09 did you investigate this already a bit may be?

[Abhishek-Dev09]

@SrikanthShyamanur : You may also consider flatpak , shiv , snap , Appimage and many more

[pombredanne]

I made a few tests with shiv which works almost beautifully... but there is a bug in Python and this cannot work for now https://github.com/linkedin/shiv/issues/224

[AyanSinhaMahapatra]

@pombredanne can we revisit this now that https://github.com/nexB/scancode-toolkit/pull/3100 has landed on develop?

[sschuberth]

Trying out Codon could also be interesting here.

[pombredanne]

@sschuberth Codon would be awesome if only it were open source. That's a proprietary license of the kind that pretends to be like an open source one :|