Making Python relocatable on Linux

[brettcannon]

@njs

It’s a practical plan, with well-defined scope, that that would eliminate a major pain point for a wide variety of different workflows and unlock new possibilities.

OK, so first step: how do we get relocatable interpreters for Linux? I’m starting there because:

1. It could work nicely in containers
2. It somewhat covers Windows through WSL
3. May it’s generic UNIX enough that macOS would work?
4. Steve wouldn’t be on the hook
5. Need to start somewhere

Now if there’s some post-download patching that’s easy to do but required, that gets into the rustup-like solution that @uranusjr suggested. But first we would need to know how close can we get to the venv-in-a-zip-file experience and what is required to even get there. I personally don’t know and so this is a legitimate question to list out what is required to gauge workload to then gauge the work required and to then see if people are motivated to do the work.