pyinstaller

[Chris Angelico]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 6:18 PM Robin Becker <robin at reportlab.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/06/2020 20:41, Chris Angelico wrote:
> .........
> > 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.
>

But you DO get to choose what you support. If they want to use Windows
98 on an 80386, that's their (stupid) choice, and they can't guarantee
that your program will work on it.

ChrisA