Why There Is No Python Compressed Archive or Binaries ?

[Calvin Spealman]

I maintain a small project that provides this, a drop-in Python runtime you
can ship without installation called Feet. Get it? It makes Python run.

https://github.com/ironfroggy/feet

On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 11:16 AM Sina Mobasheri <sinamobasheri at outlook.com>
wrote:

> Java offers download JDK as Compressed Archive<
> https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/downloads/#jdk17-linux> or
> NodeJS offers download Node as Binaries<
> https://nodejs.org/en/download/current/> both give us a compressed file
> for Linux and windows that we can just unzipped it and put in a custom
> directory and set some environment variables and start working
>
> I'm aware that Python also have something called Embedded Zip<
> https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.10.1/python-3.10.1-embed-amd64.zip>
> for Windows and nothing like that for Linux as far as I know, and I think
> this Embedded Zip is not something that user wants to work with that
> directly it's for embedding in a C++ application, so it's not the same as
> options that Java and NodeJS offers
>
> My question is why Python hasn't option for downloading as Compressed
> Archive ?
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>
>

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