Brian, that's very kind of you - i will definitely ping you for questions, but after my small vacation;)
Thanks, Eugene On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 5:23 PM, Brian Wickman <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
