Yes, I'll help with this, and I try to get signed up with an account for the issue tracker ASAP.
I've just started trying to build create the embeddable package for windows locally (all from source). Once I have that automated, I'll take a naive stab at the Linux layout. I'm sure i'll soon hit the additional complications you're talking about and come back to you with questions. Gerald R. Wiltse jerrywil...@gmail.com On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 1:57 PM Steve Dower <steve.do...@python.org> wrote: > On 01May2019 1305, Gerald Wiltse wrote: > > That does help, thanks so much for the fast response! I now see how > > it's executed on Azure pipelines also, so that should be enough for me > > to reverse engineer the rest. > > > > Followup questions if you have time: > > 1. It seems that directory doesn't exist in the 3.6 branches/tags, so it > > must have been done a different way back then. Do you think it's > > back-portable to 3.6? > > Yep, it should work with 3.6. There were scripts under Tools/msi back > then that did the same thing, but with the Store app I rewrote it to be > more flexible. > > > 2. One of our objectives is to effectively create a nearly identical > > embeddable package for linux. Do you think the layout code is generic > > enough to be modified to create a linux equivalent? > > Probably not, it's under the "PC" directory because it is entirely > CPython specific. > > I'd love to be able to have a similar embeddable distro for Linux (and > macOS), and I'll be investing some of my time in working towards this, > but it's far more complicated than simply laying out the right files. If > you're interested in helping with this, then we're in the right place to > discuss it, but we'll likely have to move to the issue tracker at some > point once we figure out who else wants/needs to be involved. > > > Obviously, there are many alternative methods and documents for creating > > "embeddable" pythons on linux, but the windows package has all the > > characteristics we want, and of course we'd like our Windows and Linux > > process build and packaging processes to be as similar as possible, so > > it seems attractive to try to port this layout script to linux. > > "make install" already does the same thing, but the install location > matters at build time, so it's a little more complex to make it work as > an embedded runtime. I'm sure there are people who know how to make it > work though. > > Cheers, > Steve >
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