Similar to pytauri

[WSH032]

Disclaimer: I am the author of pytauri.

Hi @marcomq, I learned about this library from tauri-apps/tauri#4670.

At first glance, your library seems very similar to pytauri. pytauri has a similar plugin tauri-plugin-pytauri:

• rust: https://github.com/WSH032/pytauri/tree/main/crates/tauri-plugin-pytauri
• python: https://wsh032.github.io/pytauri/reference/pytauri/ipc/

I have summarized some differences:

• tauri-plugin-pytauri can dynamically provide Tauri APIs such as AppHandle to the Python side. Because of this, it must be bundled with pytauri-core.
• Additionally, it is not zero-dependency like your plugin, as it currently relies on some third-party python libraries.

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I noticed that you used pyo3::prepare_freethreaded_python to embed the Python interpreter. However, embedding the Python interpreter is quite painful. Besides the dynamic library, you also need to bundle the Python standard library and third-party libraries.

pytauri has implemented the feature of bundling and packaging the Python interpreter through tauri-cli, which might be helpful for you.

[marcomq]

Hi! Thx for this info. I was already wondering if it is possible to embed the python interpreter or maybe the current pip dependencies too.
I haven't started yet to test prod binaries with the plugin. Will definitely consider this. It doesn't really look straight forward, but at least it is possible.

[marcomq]

Oh! You are the author of pytauri! Sry - didn't see that. Looks really good actually!
I somehow didn't found pytauri before starting to write my tauri python plugin. Not sure if I would have started it if I knew before that there already was a good applicable solution to embed python into tauri.
Pytauri actually looks as it already had a lot of progress. I probably wouldn't neither have the time, nor the skills to write pytauri ^^

Anyway! Again - thank you for the input! I didn't had time to look into this yet, and this probably helps me to find a solution to somehow bundle python as plugin with the application.

[marcomq]

Again - thx for the input.
I will probably switch to use rustpython instead of pyo3 soon. I just created a branch that works on my mac and will merge it soon after checking it on my windows / android dev environment. Somehow, it just took me too long to compile libpython on ios/android as it was required for pyo3 and I wasn't sure if it was worth the effort.
Rustpython will make it easier to deploy on android and ios. It will embed the python interpreter into the binary as it is just rust code and not an external c library. It isn't optimal, as it is slower, doesn't consider itself as production ready and doesn't support a lot of std libs. So I will still keep an option to use pyo3 as feature, but will use rustpython as default to keep it easy to get started with the plugin. The deployment of libpython needs then to be performed manually when using pyo3/cpython.

I guess it will still be easier & better to use pytauri for python-only desktop applications. I don't think I will optimize deployment with pyo3 futher on this plugin here.

I will close this issue for now.