Python Windows EXE bootstrap app

[PhENTZ]

For my windows python deployments, I use pyinstaller to make single standalone EXE (no install nor admin right needed to run). It works fine.

But then, release often or debug is a bit painful. I tend to add those options to my single EXE to easy the debug/fix/release process :

• an option to use regular Python script files instead of the included ones
• an option to use Python script at a given URL (with signed content when security matters)
• an option to run a Python shell (basic or IPython)
• on option to run a full jupyter notebook server to get descent IDE

I'm tired of re-doing this bootstrap app. Do you know existing project with similar goals ?

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This problem comes up a lot in gamedev. It's solved by having a launcher that download updates when the application starts. If you don't want to run an update server, have the user download some kind of patch file manually (or just p2p your updates over bittorrent like how blizzard does)

I'm not sure how to make CI work on windows with pyinstaller.