We are doing similar things at Infinidat.You should check
infi.recipe.application_packager at github.com/Infinidat for building and
shipping standalone Python projects, either in platform-specific packages (rpm,
MSI, etc) or as standalone executables.
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On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 12:10 AM, jrm <[email protected]> wrote:
> I work for a company that ships software products containing
> ready-to-run python
> The products contain both a command line python and embedded python used
> to script complex applications.
> Our distributions are *fundamentally relocatable*. What I mean by
> this, is that our install is nothing but an archive extraction.
> Location information is not modified or patched in anywhere in the tree
> of files representing our distribution. Our products can be extracted
> on an NFS or SMB share - mounted differently on various client systems -
> and run fine everywhere. To distinguish our approach from
> static/install-time relocation - I sometimes call it a just in time install.
> We would like to improve the capability of our installed python, to
> include some of the typical scientific and engineering extensions
> (numpy, scipy, and so on).
> Growing weary (and wary) of doing all of our own builds for various
> third party software - I've begun looking at alternatives that collect a
> compatible set of python and extensions together.
> The most capable and easy to get collection of python - with scientific
> support - appears to be Conda. It's extremely good at pulling together
> a collection of extensions that play nicely together - and has an
> appropriately open license.
> Unfortunately, a Conda distribution must be statically located before
> use. Other distribution methods I've seen are similarly limited. The
> Conda distribution is also a bit of a space hog - using hard links that
> would expand to duplicate copies of files if contained within a
> distribution such as ours.
> I can imagine ways to patch up the Conda distribution with symbolic
> links and smarter start scripts - but I was wondering if any
> fundamentally better stuff was out there.
> Any ideas?
> -jrm
> James Mason
> Exa Corp
> Burlington, MA
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