pypy support
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@rfk do you know which freezers work with pypy? I want to add some documentation in this area.
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)
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?
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 :-)
Unfortunately this project is no longer actively maintained, so I'm going to move it into archive mode: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/