legacy-python-cli VS PyInstaller

Compare legacy-python-cli vs PyInstaller and see what are their differences.

legacy-python-cli

Command line interface used by all WakaTime text editor plugins. (by wakatime)
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legacy-python-cli PyInstaller
1 105
1,056 11,290
- 1.6%
0.8 9.6
almost 3 years ago 7 days ago
Python Python
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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legacy-python-cli

Posts with mentions or reviews of legacy-python-cli. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-03.
  • Compile Python applications into stand-alone executables
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Dec 2021
    I really tried to use PyInstaller and Nuitka to deploy a Python command line [1] to Windows, Mac, and Linux users. We couldn't get around some system dependencies like OpenSSL needing to be available and not broken on user machines. We ended up re-writing the whole program from Python into Go [2].

    Using Go solved so many long-tail bugs for us and just simplified the whole process of shipping code to user machines.

    [1] https://github.com/wakatime/legacy-python-cli

    [2] https://github.com/wakatime/wakatime-cli

PyInstaller

Posts with mentions or reviews of PyInstaller. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-08.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing legacy-python-cli and PyInstaller you can also consider the following projects:

flambeau - Nim bindings to libtorch

Nuitka - Nuitka is a Python compiler written in Python. It's fully compatible with Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, and 3.11. You feed it your Python app, it does a lot of clever things, and spits out an executable or extension module.

aw-watcher-window - Cross-platform window watcher (for use with ActivityWatch)

PyOxidizer - A modern Python application packaging and distribution tool

wakatime-cli - Command line interface used by all WakaTime text editor plugins

py2exe - modified py2exe to support unicode paths

jellyfin-mpv-shim - MPV Cast Client for Jellyfin

py2app

wakatime - Command line interface used by all WakaTime text editor plugins.

pyarmor - A tool used to obfuscate python scripts, bind obfuscated scripts to fixed machine or expire obfuscated scripts.

pynsist - Build Windows installers for Python applications