Distribute standalone executable for Nox

[theacodes]

How would this feature be useful?

Nox, like all meta Python tools, suffers from the "bootstrap" problem: You have to have Python installed and you have to be able to install Python packages to install Nox.

This is actually a big hurdle for newcomers. Packaging Nox as a standalone binary with at least one version of Python would make this much easier on people. We could also consider Pyenv integration (#4) to help gather missing interpreters on demand.

Describe the solution you'd like Options I know of right now:

• briefcase

[phildini]

I have a lot of thoughts here, that I'm hoping to chime in with more later.

My contribution to "prior art" is Hera, a packaged Mac app that is a complete Jupyter and Python install: https://github.com/phildini/hera

[bhrutledge]

This seems to be the goal of https://github.com/indygreg/PyOxidizer

[maciej-lech]

This seems to be the goal of https://github.com/indygreg/PyOxidizer

Or https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller