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Why is this executable web UI distributed as a python script?

Why do I have to have python installed in order to use it? Why don't you bundle all the dependencies with the download?

Closed as resolved

five years later

i found this through google search and it says it's resolved but there's no information what the problem was and all of the links don't work anymore

links to 11 year old thread for tangentially related Windows Vista problem, locks current thread

Why don't you bundle all the dependencies with the download?

This is one reason I like statically compiled apps. You can just give users one executable and it'll work. This is common with apps written in Go, but it's doable (with some caveats) in C# now with AoT in .NET 8.

Assuming the user uses the same OS that the developer runs, and that they release a statically compiled app for. In this example, I see the project is python and docker is mentioned in thrbdocs, while not 100% my bet is that the output would still not be the .exe file that thhis entitled asshole is demanding.