[Python-Dev] Integrate BeautifulSoup into stdlib?

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> I do develop applications myself, and had only once in ten years
> the desire to package everything in a stand-alone way, and then ended
> up using freeze. I'm genuinely curious what the scenarios are where
> people desire such packaging - I did hear the desire often, but never
> fully explained.
> 

There is one case where I understand that desire: py2exe on Windows
(which is similar to my own case, except that I wanted to support
Solaris). It's the case where you produce an application to download
by end users, and you don't want to bother end users with installing
Python first.

However, I think that py2exe also solves this case sufficiently. One
might debate whether freeze would be better, or whether it would be
better to produce MSI instead of exe, but in essence, the result
will be always the same. I don't think a cross-platform packaging
solution can help here in any way.

Regards,
Martin