Why There Is No Python Compressed Archive or Binaries ?

[Kirill Ratkin]

Hi Grant

Hmmm...  definitly you are right in particular solution.

But Ok, let me show example.


I often use Go in parallel with Python and sometimes I switch between 
Windows/Linux also. On both systems I just download Go toolset as 
tarball/zip file and unpack in place where I like.

The point here is Go toolset officially distributed as tarball/zip for 
all supported operating system. This is not PortableGo or WinGo or some 
anther third party Go distribution. This is one of supported way do get 
Go toolset.

On Windows I put toolset on separate drive 'D:\Go' and on linux - 
$HOME/.local/go

And I set up several environment variables (doing 'setx' on Windows and 
edit .profile on linux): GOPATH, GOROOT, GOCACHE, ... and modify my PATH.

Now I can build any Go project. I don't care about which Go compiler was 
set on OS (Linux or Windows) before. I just unpack tarball/zip in place 
where I have permissions and use it.


I take Go just for example. In same way you can unpack and use Java SDK 
and DotNet SDK. All these toolsets have option (provided by vendor) to 
be downloaded as compressed file.


You are absolutely right. It's easy to google and find something like 
winpython. But I'm sure there are reasons why www.python.org doesn't 
provide this.


On 1/18/22 00:13, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2022-01-17, Sina Mobasheri <sinamobasheri at outlook.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes sure, actually I can continue working and developing with python
>> without this feature no problem but it's something that I like and
>> I'm just curious about it, about why Python doesn't implement this
>> kind of installation
> You talk about "Python" implementing something. Python is a language.
>
> If what you want hasn't been implmented, it's because there haven't
> been any _people_ who have wanted it enough to do it. I spent 90
> seconds googling and found that what you wanted has been implemented a
> couple times for Windows. There was "Portable Python," which appears
> to have been abandonded.
>
> There's also WinPython <http://winpython.github.io/> which seems to be
> active.  AFAICT, you just unzip it and run it (nothing needs to be
> "installed"). It says you can even move that directory to another
> machine and run it there if you want.
>
> Both of those were for Windows.
>
> It's probably never been done for Linux because Linux distros pretty
> much all come with Python already installed by default, and it's
> usually trivial to install alternative versions as well (and keep them
> all updated) via whatever package manager the Distro uses.
>
> --
> Grant