I want to create a python zipapp file that automatically downloads and installs dependencies when run. This is possible by bundling the dependencies in the .pyz file itself. However, that explodes the file size from 10kB to 500MB.
I basically want to automatically run pip install -r requirements.txt before executing __main__.py, but I cannot figure a way to do that.
I've tried putting requirements.txt in the archive, but that doesn't do anything. Looking at zipapp --help doesn't give any suggestions either.