[brettcannon]

People would love to see that happen, but it requires time and effort from people to build such a solution. Some people are trying, e.g. https://pyoxidizer.readthedocs.io/ and https://briefcase.readthedocs.io/ as well as stalwarts like PyInstaller and such.

But as I said, it takes time and effort and there's only so much of that when it's being done by volunteers in their evenings and weekends.

And as an aside, I would suggest teaching them `python -m pip` over `pip3`: https://snarky.ca/why-you-should-use-python-m-pip/.

[harikb]

Thanks for the link. About the lack of resources problem though, I have a few points to make.

I think one of the unfortunate things that happened is indeed the arrival of new languages. Go, Rust, Swift, whatever is taking away a bunch of senior developers to work on those. Even though Python is still "most wanted" and "most popular", imho that does not reflect the reality among senior developers who are capable of taking on large tasks like this.

Sometimes the frustration expressed by package management has more to do with build dependencies rather than the distribution itself. Like a library that has a C dependency. In this context, the world of Go is equally messy, when CGO is involved. Luckily in their case, most people do rewrite libraries in Pure Go.

[judge2020]

Thanks for the links - pyoxidizer looks promising with some good docs and being built on rust (but it won't work with QT's PySide2 likely until the next major release[0]), while briefcase looks to have been tailored to "beeware" usage and is lacking any standalone usage information. Hoping both these work out, PyInstaller works but other options would be welcomed.

0: https://github.com/indygreg/PyOxidizer/issues/228#issuecomme...

[j88439h84]

I really hope the PSF can help the community move toward Poetry. It's a game changer relative to all the alternatives.