Create a .exe file using Default Installer

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Feature Request

First, using the default installer as specified in the documentation, https://python-poetry.org/docs/#windows-powershell-install-instructions, it creates a .bat file in %USERPROFILE%\.poetry\bin folder. I want it to create an exe file instead of a batch file.

It can be done using the way setuptools does it. Essentially, it would be to find cli.exe or cli-64.exe and rename it to poetry.exe and create a file called poetry-script.py instead of the currently present, poetry(without any extension) file. Usually, setuptools is installed by default. If it not, the .tar.gz for windows, can include a copy of cli.exe and cli-64.exe which can be easily compiled using, https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/blob/main/launcher.c

Note: poetry-script.py needs to have proper shebang with full paths.

[sdispater]

The new bootstrapping method (see https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/pull/3706) will solve this. Basically, the new method uses pip which in turn creates the poetry.exe script which is then symlinked (or copied if symlinks are not available) to the destination directory.

[naveen521kk]

If using pip or pipx to install poetry does this anyway, I would be inclined to rather make a not int he documentation and move on.

Yes, pipx or pip creates a .exe file and I have seen pipx and pip both using distlib.

Since the bootstrap script is intended to work with no or limited dependencies, I would be hesitent to even require distlib. As this is not necessarily always available and there are known issues inconsistencies with distro vendored installations of the package (eg: ubuntu).

I would say doing this only on Windows is fine actually because that’s the place where an exe is required.