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11 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 1 story, 10 comments · first 2018-07-13 · latest 2024-11-16

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  1. …"lazily" meaning if you run it a few times in a row it will only mount it one time. [0] - https://github.com/facebookincubator/xar
  2. There’s https://github.com/facebookincubator/xar - but cross platform could be a pain. Basically static link “binary” for Python (or other).
    comment by cricalix · 2022-01-21 · in Make Your Python CLI Tools Pop with Rich
  3. XAR, perchance? https://github.com/facebookincubator/xar
  4. Another one: https://github.com/facebookincubator/xar "XAR lets you package many files into a single self-contained executable file. This makes it easy to distribute and install... A popular example is Python application archives that…
  5. Also see Facebook’s XAR: https://github.com/facebookincubator/xar
  6. …your Python apps statically with the version they expect. For example, Facebook's XAR format ( https://github.com/facebookincubator/xar/ ) does this very nicely.
    comment by madhadron · 2018-12-19 · in What, No Python in RHEL 8 Beta?
  7. …foo/setup.py bdist_xar && scp foo/dist/foo.xar user@server if my understanding is correct. [1]: https://github.com/facebookincubator/xar
    comment by joshuamorton · 2018-08-03 · in Goodbye Python, Hello Go
  8. …files into a single self-contained executable file. This makes it easy to distribute and install. https://github.com/facebookincubator/xar/ Then just build your XAR executable with: $ python setup.py bdist_xar
    comment by Alir3z4 · 2018-08-03 · in Goodbye Python, Hello Go
  9. This was circulating around HN a few days ago: https://github.com/facebookincubator/xar
  10. …a big issue for other popular languages. >deployment Also helped by pipenv, and Facebook's xar ( https://github.com/facebookincubator/xar ) is new but looks promising. >no refactoring/static checking It's a dynamic language. But this is…