In my opinion the trend of creating these standalone packages is pretty bad. Developers that choose to support these kind of packages become responsible not only for the code they distribute, but also for whether the dependencies that are bundled in such a standalone package are up to date and secure.
What libraries would have to be bundled? I guess that depends on how standalone you want to get. In Nixpkgs we get to 130 MB for Python 3.5, if it would bundle all its dependencies (glibc, openssl, ncurses, some X11 libs, ...). If I am correct you can assume certain libraries are available on the host system so you could skip bundling them. Furthermore, there's now at least three competing formats: Snappy, Flatpak and AppImage. On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 12:31 PM, Martin Wimpress < martin.wimpr...@canonical.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I work at Canonical as part of the engineering team developing Ubuntu > and Snapcraft [1] and I'm a long time Python fan :-) > > We've created snaps, a platform that enables projects to directly > control delivery of software updates to users. This video of a > lightning talk by dlang developers at DConf2017 [2] shows how they've > made good use of snaps to distribute their compiler. They found the > release channels particularly useful so their users can track a > specific release. > > Is there someone here who'd be interested in doing the same for Python? > > [1] https://snapcraft.io/ > [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-bDzr4gYUU > [3] https://snapcraft.io/docs/core/install > [4] https://build.snapcraft.io/ > > -- > Regards, Martin. > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > freddyrietdijk%40fridh.nl >
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