optional extras

[zalmane]

I would like to provide my users with a base package and then optional extras. For example, packaging of a set of database drivers.
Is there a mechanism to create an archive with additional wheel files that can be added to an existing one-file bundle or a folder?
Are there any built in tools to achieve this?

[bwoodsend]

PyInstaller isn't going to do this since a PyInstaller built application is supposed to be immutable. You can hack in plugin code by adding directories to sys.path at runtime but that's a task better suited to pip rather than adhoc code and to use pip, you need a proper Python environment rather than the bundle PyInstaller produces.

[zalmane]

is there a way to create a second pyinstaller bundle and allow the user to post install these? is there any mechanism i can use to do that? I am not looking to dynamically load modules, just a way to post install additional procreate bundles.

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[bwoodsend]

no