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cloudmatrix / esky

an auto-update framework for frozen python apps
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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pypy support #109

Closed timeyyy closed 6 years ago

timeyyy commented 8 years ago

@rfk do you know which freezers work with pypy? I want to add some documentation in this area.

rfk commented 8 years ago

I don't sorry; I've never tried to make a frozen app with pypy as its interpreter.

(The code in esky can use pypy for compiling its bootstrap env, but that's a while 'nother story and I'm not at all sure it still works with latest upstream pypy)

timeyyy commented 8 years ago

So if you have pypy installed esky will try and compile the bootstrap.env with pypy? Is the purpose of this to increase speed? Is this a useful feature we should support/ document?

rfk commented 8 years ago

So if you have pypy installed esky will try and compile the bootstrap.env with pypy

There's a special option in setup.py to enable it, something like compile_bootstrap_exe.

Is the purpose of this to increase speed?

Mostly it's to decrease file size; it means you can have just a very small stub exe in the bootstrap env, rather than a copy of a whole python interpreter.

Is this a useful feature we should support/ document?

Yes, but first we should confirm whether it still works at all :-)

rfk commented 6 years ago

Unfortunately this project is no longer actively maintained, so I'm going to move it into archive mode:

https://rfk.id.au/blog/entry/archiving-open-source-projects/