On Sat, 21 Nov 2020 at 09:30, Ronald Oussoren via Python-ideas <python-ideas@python.org> wrote: > > > > > On 20 Nov 2020, at 16:42, Ricky Teachey <ri...@teachey.org> wrote: > > > > I was reading the pyinstaller thread and had this idea but didn't want to > > hijack. > > > > Maybe a wild idea, and very possible totally impractical or hopelessly > > complex, but: could the existing pypi infrastructure be leveraged into a > > set of platform-specific app stores? Maybe maybe we could make it as simple > > as a single line in a pyproject.toml file. > > > > Imagine if all the end user does is install the store, and clicks the link > > to the project app. The store takes care of the rest. The developer marks > > their package as an installable program to be published to the store, > > optionally specifying things like specific platforms if needed. All the > > project website does for users to install is provide a url to their app in > > the store. > > > > Very very rough idea of how it might work: a store app API would provide an > > installation GUI if desired, and the store would build the environment > > needed for installing the package and dependencies. Once the specified > > environment is built, pip would take care of installing the package as > > usual. > > > > If this is an awful idea feel free to just say so. I have given it no deep > > thought and do not have the expertise to even think through what would be > > needed to create such a thing. > > In some sense PyPI already is such a store, if you don’t mind launching > applications from the command line. > > That said, using PyPI in this way is not necessarily useful even ignoring > platforms where side-loading is frowned upon or even impossible. As a user of > applications I don’t really care in what language an application is written > in, I don’t wan to look in the Python App Store, or the C# App Store, I just > wan to use application A.
Maybe a good solution could be if it was easy to put a Python-based application into something like the Microsoft Store. It would be useful if there was a library that could easily produce the appropriate format for that (I don't know if one already exists) with all dependencies bundled. -- Oscar _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/XPBM6YAPZRY5OF6IDN27R6HW5I7RKZLI/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
