Portable python via launcher #141567
Description
Feature or enhancement
Proposal:
Proof of Concept: https://github.com/qznc/portable_python
I'm bothered by the way how Bazel handles Python. While looking for alternatives, I came up with this proof of concept for a portable python distribution: It uses a statically linked musl libc to be independent of whatever host Linux there is. It is actually just a launcher for an embedded Python, such that dlopen(3) still works as intended.
In contrast to venv, you can zip this up and deploy it elsewhere. In contrast to containers, this is just a folder.
It has not been tested in lots of scenarios, so I'm not quite sure about the limitations yet. It seems to be more widely usable than similar approaches I found.
I doubt it makes sense for cpython to adopt it but for awareness, I created this issue.
Has this already been discussed elsewhere?
This is a minor feature, which does not need previous discussion elsewhere
Links to previous discussion of this feature:
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