[Python-Dev] Keeping competitive with Go (was Re: Computed Goto dispatch for Python 2) (original) (raw)

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Thu May 28 19:15:11 CEST 2015

On 28 May 2015 at 17:47, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

Single-file binaries are indeed important. (Though in most cases they don't have to be totally stand-alone -- they can depend on a system python and its stdlib. At least in typical datacenter setups.) Have people looked at PEX (a format developed by Twitter) or Pants (which seems to be an open-source tool that can build PEX files)?

There appear to be problems with pex on Windows. I've reported a couple of bugs, which appear to have been fixed (although I don't know the timeframe, I lost interest before a fix was implemented). But there are new ones I just found on a quick test.

I'd like pex to work, it looks like a nice tool. But I don't want to be their Windows support resource, and it seems like they may not currently have anyone else :-)

Paul

(I'll probably go and lie down now and stop banging the cross-platform drum for a while :-))

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