--pyc is too dangerous

[tusharsadhwani]

Right now, it destroys the input directory to create the package. Bad idea.

Let's make it copy the directory to /tmp and destroy the copy instead.

Maybe pycify should have been like that in the first place. Doing this change in pycify may also make sense.

[tusharsadhwani]

@NobleMathews would you like to approach this?

At first I was thinking that pycify should use an --inplace flag that would be mandatory if --out-dir is not specified. But that would break backwards compatibility. Though I suppose that might be fine.

[NobleMathews]

Sure, Doesn't pycify have an output dir argument for that?

So there shouldn't be a need to update pycify just point it to a temp dir like you suggested

[NobleMathews]

Ah didn't see your edit will check

[tusharsadhwani]

outdir arg will still delete the original files iirc.

[tusharsadhwani]

actually, pycify is fine. let's just change packaged to make a copy of the input directory in /tmp and then run pycify there then use that directory as the input directory instead.