Guix's Answer to PyInstaller

Guix's Answer to PyInstaller

[jgart]

Hi Guixers,

What is Guix's answer to PyInstaller? 

`guix pack --list-formats`?

https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller

I haven't reviewed all of PyInstaller yet to see where feature parity fails or differences should be noted. 

On my TODO list.

Re: Guix's Answer to PyInstaller

[Ekaitz Zarraga]

Hey!
¿Qué tal?

------- Original Message -------
On Friday, March 31st, 2023 at 7:33 PM, jgart <jgart@dismail.de> wrote:


> Hi Guixers,
> 
> What is Guix's answer to PyInstaller?
> 
> `guix pack --list-formats`?
> 
> https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller
> 
> I haven't reviewed all of PyInstaller yet to see where feature parity fails or differences should be noted.
> 
> On my TODO list.


I've been thinking on this for a while, mostly for windows[^1].
We could manage to generate something similar to this, but I suspect it requires a pretty heavy magic for non-python packages.

I'd love to see this happening, mostly because I have clients I'd like to be able to serve... If you want to dig on this issue, please let me know your findings. Maybe I can help!

Thanks for bringing this up!


[^1]: See https://ekaitz.elenq.tech/windows.html and also https://issues.guix.gnu.org/62226

Re: Guix's Answer to PyInstaller

[jgart]

> Hey!
> ¿Qué tal?

Hola, aqui gozando con bolsas y derivaciones ;()

> but I suspect it requires a pretty heavy magic for non-python packages.

I imagine not much magic for Common Lisp since we can produce a static binary with sbcl, etc.
 
> I'd love to see this happening, mostly because I have clients I'd like to be able to serve... If
> you want to dig on this issue, please let me know your findings. Maybe I can help!

Another software to compare to is PyOxidizer which is used for producing binaries that embed Python:

https://github.com/indygreg/PyOxidizer

> Thanks for bringing this up!

De nada, anytime!
 
> [^1]: See https://ekaitz.elenq.tech/windows.html 

Nice blog post. I'll read it soon.

all best,

jgart