Snakes in a case: Packaging Python apps for distribution

Speaker

Russell Keith-Magee

Breifcase
What it is?
- PEP518 compliant build tool
- multiple platform support
What it isn't
- Dependent on the rest of beeware suite
- A solution for cli tool
How?
- ship a full independent Python interpreter
What's the different?
- Doesn't try to be clever
  - PyInstallers try to make Python something it isn't
- Crossplatform
- supports iOS and Android
What's bad
- Some platform support could be improved
- Support packages are large
  - Use support_package to specify custom support package