| DrTrigon added a comment. |
@jayvdb: ....not I am a bit unhappy since somehow we seam to run into this package installation mess 'external' was supposed to solve again. Especially from you mail I feel the need to insist on creating a pythonic solution for "vendored" deps. Have you ever used vistrails? In my opinion it is very pythonic:
- simple installation, small footprint
- automatically detects missing deps
- cleverly finds and installs the right package on user wish
that is what I want to see in pywikibot (now we are back to discussions from 2014 ;)) and python in general. What about another GSoC for next year?
To be very clear on that: IMHO pip and virtualenv are not needed at all! I never saw a real use for it - I am happy to use and work with it for this project, but if everything would be coded and separated correctly any python package would work out of the box from any folder. So every python application could just use the system packages for uncritical stuff and for critical stuff use an own version in it own folder. That was the idea behind externals and how it used to work.
I really feel I want to solve that in a proper python package! I don't want to have the same issue again in 2020 ;)))
Cc: zhuyifei1999, jayvdb, AbdealiJK, Aklapper, pywikibot-bugs-list, DrTrigon, Zppix, Lethexie, Jay8g
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