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witty-crayon-22786
01/11/2021, 11:17 PMscratch that itch
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hundreds-father-404
01/11/2021, 11:18 PMThis is reminding me how nice it would be to release Pants as a standalone binary. I'm having issues getting cryptography to build too
What's the reason Pex doesn't work for that again? Why don't we always install via the Pex builds?
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witty-crayon-22786
01/12/2021, 12:28 AMit would… but an assumption of a rust standalone binary is that it will not be cross platform
we could ship multiple pexes each with wheels for a particular platform to achieve a similar effect
with the largest difference being that a pex is unlikely to ever contain a python interpreter, whereas a pyoxidizer build would
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hundreds-father-404
01/12/2021, 3:47 PMwe could ship multiple pexes each with wheels for a particular platform to achieve a similar effectRight now we do a single multiplatform Pex. Why would we want to change to multiple?
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witty-crayon-22786
01/12/2021, 6:09 PMwe probably wouldn’t. i’m saying that a standalone binary would not be cross platform.
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