David Cournapeau wrote:
Chris Withers wrote:
"even" seems to imply this is a basic requirement. I wonder how many
people are rolling out python apps on Win64? I'm certainly not...
Even was maybe a bit strong. Concerning win64, the first release of
numpy we did for win64 has been downloaded 3000 times,
By what? I'm always sceptical about the download figures on PyPI, and
other places. I wonder how many bots are sucking down every .exe or .msi
they can find to check for viruses or the like?
I think it is also important to keep in mind that not everybody use the
same workflow - I myself build a lot of non trivial python softwares on
many platforms, and the whole virtualenv/buildout/pip workflows is very
foreign to me, and do not fit at all how I want to build and deploy
things.
How do you build and deploy things?
To answer your question: I use distutils, scons, and native OS package
tools. Sandboxing at build time is done through chrooting (and some
hacked wine setup for windows).
You should probably look at buildout, you may find your like getting a
lot easier. Yes, the docs suck. I even promised to do something about
that back at PyCon, sadly time has not been kind to my promises...
I think the main issue is that we don't mean the same thing by "deploy
things". For web developers, it seems that deploying mean repeat an
exact environment with all its dependencies on a similar machine (or set
of machines), often by the same person (or at least a technically
competent person). In that scenario, if there is a problem (wrong
pythonpath, double entry from an egg, etc...), you can easily fix it,
and being able to use latest version of some libraries + developer
convenience is the key.
By deploying, I mean being able to give a single file which people can
install by themselves, people who are often ignorant about PYTHONPATH,
import mechanisms, what a .pth file is.
Well, buildout.cfg is exacltly that file for me, for both cases ;-)
Chris - for the record: .pth files are evil and should be punished...
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