Feature Request: Portable executable
anlx-sw opened this issue · comments
From a user side of view i would prefer to use a portable executable of xkcdpass on windows.
Python is normally not installed on windows computers or servers and may not be allowed in secure environments becaues it increases the systems attack surface.
A portable executable would also allow to install this tool via https://chocolatey.org/.
Would it be possible to provide a compiled exe as a regular release option? I think this could be helpful for all kinds of windows users.
I'm not very familiar with windows packaging, but I will look into this for sure
I could PR my docker setup if someone is interested :)
This might be a bit threadjacking, but have AppImages been thought about?
They would be portable executables on Linux and I would be interested in using one (especially if it supported AppImageUpdate and was gpg/equivalent signed) so I could get new features like #110 sooner without having to remember to keep xkcdpass up-to-date with pip outside of my system repositories.
Currently I seem to be using 1.16.5+dfsg.1-1 while the latest tag in GitHub is xkcdpass-1.17.3.