On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 18:12:59 -0600 Vincent Povirk <madewokh...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have been following OneGet development very closely, and I have > volunteered to create a OneGet provider for installing Python > packages. Normally, I would keep quiet about this sort of thing until > I have actual code that works, but since no one else on the OneGet > seems as interested in doing it, and the Python community (if this > mailing list is anything to go by) doesn't know what to make of this > stuff, I figured I should try to open lines of communication before I > start essentially making decisions on this community's behalf. > > So, the main advantage of a Python provider is that you would be able > to do things like: > > Install-Package -Provider Python -Name Pygments > or > > Install-Package Pygments-2.0.1-py3-none-any.whl > > and OneGet would be able to bootstrap (if necessary) the Python > provider itself, Python 3.x, and pip, and use pip to install the .whl. > (I'm unclear at the moment on whether pip is necessary to install a > .whl, but currently it looks to be the best thing to lean on for the > job of installing/uninstalling things). > > My end goal is to be able to package a Python application such that an > end-user on Windows (who doesn't know anything about Python) can > easily install it, without either of us having to think about how all > the dependencies are going to get there. > > I think that the best approach for the moment is to lean heavily on > pip for installing/uninstalling things, while duplicating other tasks > (such as listing installed packages, querying information about > package files, searching PyPI) in C# so that they do not require a > Python environment. > > If anyone has questions or concerns about this, please let me know. > Keep in mind that I am not subscribed to the mailing list and will > have to be CC'd.
If you don't get any answers here, I would suggest posting on distutils-sig: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig There's a gmane mirror as well: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.distutils.devel/ Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
