Recent changes for building standalone dvc binary on Linux
made it possible to do the same thing on Windows. So now
we are getting rid of WinPython and instead building
standalone dvc binary using PyInstall and packaing it
into an installer with InnoSetup.
One of the benefits is dramatically decreased installer size.
From 125M we got to only 13M!
Signed-off-by: Ruslan Kuprieiev <[email protected]>
This will allow us to make our installer ~4 times smaller(120MB ->
30MB). This patch also has fix for PATH bug and installs dvc to whatever
direstory user specified.
Nuitka is not able to handle all of our dependencies correctly,
so instead we're using anaconda which is essentially portable
python in single directory, that we can use to simply pip intsall
everything we need, pack it up and create an installer with inno
setup.
Currently, to build on windows(and for windows) you need to only
have Inno Setup 5 installed(no need for python!) and simply run
build.cmd from your prompt. It will automatically download latest
miniconda and produce dvc-{version}.exe in project's root.
Use dvc-{version}.exe to distribute dvc as a standalone application.
It doesn't require anything from user, everything it needs is provided
by our installer.
Ruslan Kuprieiev