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RobotPy installer program
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What if we distributed the installer as a standalone exe? #34

Closed virtuald closed 1 year ago

virtuald commented 4 years ago

... instead of distributing a packaged RobotPy zipfile? The install docs would include that as part of your introduction to RobotPy. Could use pyinstaller for this.

One advantage of this approach is that then teams wouldn't need to install python on their non-development computers.

Probably would need a GUI version at some point.

virtuald commented 4 years ago

Because paramiko (https://github.com/robotpy/robotpy-installer/issues/31), this would make sense.

Also, it probably makes sense to no longer distribute a release package, but have people use the installed version of robotpy-installer?

auscompgeek commented 4 years ago

pyinstaller is super-slow though. Would PyOxidizer or other tools work for our use-case?

Suave101 commented 1 year ago

PyInstaller has many options that are difficult to navigate, you could use auto-py-to-exe to make the development of a standalone exe faster.

virtuald commented 1 year ago

Now that we have robotpy-meta, I don't feel there's as strong a need for this anymore.