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commits go through a pull-request process that runs CI and tests
several platforms.
+### Packing Meson into a zipapp
+
+After downloading the release, you can create a standalone single-file
+executable for Meson by running the script:
+
+```
+./packaging/create_zipapp.py --outfile meson.pyz --interpreter '/usr/bin/env python3' <source checkout>
+```
+
+This uses python's native support for [zipapp].
+
## Installing Meson with pip
Meson is available in the [Python Package Index] and can be installed
@@ -92,6 +103,7 @@ provide Python 3. Use either `mingw32/mingw-w64-i686-python3` or
are building for.
[GitHub release page]: https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/releases
+ [zipapp]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/zipapp.html
[Python Package Index]: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/meson/
[Git]: https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson
[Python's home page]: https://www.python.org/downloads/