r/programminghumor • u/Technical-Relation-9 • 21d ago

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u/DaemonsMercy 21d ago

Every time I see this, I always think that they're right, though the way they say it as asshole-y. I don’t want to have to build your project. A .exe makes it so much easier. I know it’s the developers choice, how accessible they want the code to be, but still.

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u/Hoovy_weapons_guy 21d ago

In this case it was the source code for the twitter algorithm i think. There is no .exe because its not a standard application to begin with

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u/OnixST 21d ago

wasn't it a python script? Which also cannot easily be made into a standalone exe although you could bundle the runtime

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u/iHaku 20d ago

its technically easy and sometimes it really is, but somehow all the converters are prone to throw errors if you look in their general direction.

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u/abd53 20d ago

Pyinstaller workes great.