[Python-ideas] Enhancing Zipapp

[Chris Angelico]

On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 6:37 AM Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer
<arj.python at gmail.com> wrote:
> When running such an app, the interpreter will check first if the app-specific
> site-packages folder is empty, if not, install the wheels. This provides package-
> freezing ability. The only downside is longer first-run time.

Where is this directory? What if it already contains content?

Are you proposing that *any* zipapp archive is capable of downloading
arbitrary code from the internet and then running it, without any
prompting from the user?

ChrisA