pyinstaller

[Robin Becker]

On 10/06/2020 20:41, Chris Angelico wrote:
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> Python can be installed from the app store, or from a python.org
> downloader. If that's too much hassle for them, then they're going to
> need help *whatever* you do.
> 
works for windows 10, but probably not on older machines.

>> The current exe works on very old versions of windows as well. Some people are reluctant to change old win 95/xp
>> machines just to run a single app.
> 
> And a lot of us are reluctant to try to support XP. It's an operating
> system that was released the same year as Python 2.2 - do you try to
> support that? If not, why support an ancient OS?
unfortunately we don't get to choose the users' hardware or what OS they use.

> 
>> I had supposed there might be a simple mechanism to get these applications validated in some way, but it seems not. MS
>> seems uninterested.
> 
> And I can't blame them. How is MS going to know that you haven't
> tampered with the Python binary before you packaged it up? How can end
> users be expected to trust it?
no disagreement here

> ChrisA
>