Happy to answer any specific questions about PEX here or off-thread. I'm hacking on wheel support in my spare time -- hope to ship that sometime in the next couple weeks. The other big upcoming change is standardizing docstrings throughout so that we can get a proper API published on readthedocs.
~brian On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Evgeny Sazhin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 4:54 AM, Nick Coghlan <[email protected]> wrote: > > Evgeny, while you can probably make wheels do what you want, if you're > > interested in single file executables, you're almost certainly better off > > using one of the tools designed to make those easier to work with (like > > Twitter's recently discussed PEX format, or PEP 441). > > > > As you have discovered, cross platform single file executables are an > area > > where the currently published documentation is even less polished and > > coherent than that for the rest of the packaging infrastructure :) > > > > Cheers, > > Nick. > > > Nick, > > Thank you for pointing that out. I took a brief look at the pyz stuff > and while it might be good generally - it doesn't help me much. There > are two problems i'm trying to solve : dependency management and > jar-like behavior (as libraries or executables). Pip + wheel combo > seems to be geared better for that task (may be as you guys are > pointing out, not intentionally, but still seems to be better > approach). > > We will definitely take a look at PEX as from the very scattered info > i got so far they seem to be very good at dependency management - so > that might be an option. > > > Thanks, > Eugene > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig >
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