Why There Is No Python Compressed Archive or Binaries ?

[Calvin Spealman]

Well, on its own, I'd say the reason we don't have such a download is that
it wouldn't be very useful.

On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 2:08 PM Sina Mobasheri <sinamobasheri at outlook.com>
wrote:

> It's cool project definitely something that I'm personally interested
> about, but I talking about compressed archive of cpython that we can simply
> unzipped and starting developing an app, not running  an app that already
> developed... 😀
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> *From:* Calvin Spealman <cspealma at redhat.com>
> *Sent:* Monday, January 17, 2022 10:19:13 PM
> *To:* Sina Mobasheri <sinamobasheri at outlook.com>
> *Cc:* python-list at python.org <python-list at python.org>
> *Subject:* Re: Why There Is No Python Compressed Archive or Binaries ?
>
> 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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