Re: Squisher -- a lightweight, self-contained alternative to eggs?

Adam Atlas a écrit : Doesn't seem to work. I guess zipimport doesn't support that by default... but if I remember correctly, Setuptools adds that. Maybe I'll take a look at how it does it (I think by extracting the .so to / tmp?) or to another known location, IIRC. and see how easy it

Re: Squisher -- a lightweight, self-contained alternative to eggs?

On Mar 5, 12:31 am, Adam Atlas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right now I'm just testing and polishing up the code... in the meantime, any comments? How does this work with compiled extension modules? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Squisher -- a lightweight, self-contained alternative to eggs?

Doesn't seem to work. I guess zipimport doesn't support that by default... but if I remember correctly, Setuptools adds that. Maybe I'll take a look at how it does it (I think by extracting the .so to / tmp?) and see how easy it would be to integrate it here. --

Re: Squisher -- a lightweight, self-contained alternative to eggs?

I updated it. http://adamatlas.org/2007/03/Squisher-0.2.py New Things: - It supports C extensions within squished packages. - It supports including squished packages within other squished packages. (That is, you can have a package that includes a .pyc generated by this, and turn that whole

Re: Squisher -- a lightweight, self-contained alternative to eggs?

Adam Atlas a écrit : (snip) If you make a ZIP archive of this and run it through Squisher, you'll get a single .pyc file which can be imported by any Python installation anywhere just like any other module, without requiring users to install any supporting mechanisms (like setuptools),

Re: Squisher -- a lightweight, self-contained alternative to eggs?

This could be easily made into a distutils extension (which was my intention all along, though that's not implemented yet). That's not the point. This is not intended as a way to package source code. It's analogous to bdist, not sdist. The convenience gain is for the users, not (primarily) the

Re: Squisher -- a lightweight, self-contained alternative to eggs?

Ah... heh, sorry, I misread your message as a much more convenient way rather than much more than a convenient way. Anyway, I understand that, and I do indeed find setuptools useful and use it on a regular basis. But my other points still stand. This would be a moot point if setuptools were part

Re: Squisher -- a lightweight, self-contained alternative to eggs?

Adam Atlas wrote: Ah... heh, sorry, I misread your message as a much more convenient way rather than much more than a convenient way. Anyway, I understand that, and I do indeed find setuptools useful and use it on a regular basis. But my other points still stand. This would be a moot point

Re: Squisher -- a lightweight, self-contained alternative to eggs?

Adam, Sounds like a nice idea to me. Pretty ingenious use of the zip/ bytecode headers and all too. Post a message when you release it please. Regards, Jordan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Squisher -- a lightweight, self-contained alternative to eggs?

Adam Atlas a écrit : Ah... heh, sorry, I misread your message as a much more convenient way rather than much more than a convenient way. !-) (snip) But my other points still stand. Indeed. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Squisher -- a lightweight, self-contained alternative to eggs?

Stef Mientki a écrit : Adam Atlas wrote: Ah... heh, sorry, I misread your message as a much more convenient way rather than much more than a convenient way. Anyway, I understand that, and I do indeed find setuptools useful and use it on a regular basis. But my other points still stand.

Re: Squisher -- a lightweight, self-contained alternative to eggs?

Stef Mientki wrote: As a normal Windows user, I'm used to run an install file, and hit just 1 button. As a normal Windows programmer, I'm used to create a simple Inno-setup file, and my users can behave as a simplistic and happy Windows user. But I guess the needed

Re: Squisher -- a lightweight, self-contained alternative to eggs?

Stef, What Adam is talking about has nothing to do with windows or *nix. He's talking about packing one or more .py files into a single archive, which can be imported just like the regular .py files. This means you can distribute a whole bunch of module files/dirs as a single .pyc file. It just

Re: Squisher -- a lightweight, self-contained alternative to eggs?

Okay, here's the prototype... http://adamatlas.org/2007/03/Squisher-0.1.py It's meant to be run as a command line program (pass it a directory or a zip file as an argument). By default it will save the new file to the argument's base name plus '.pyc'. You can override this with -o. Obviously it's

Squisher -- a lightweight, self-contained alternative to eggs?

I wrote this little program called Squisher that takes a ZIP file containing Python modules and generates a totally self-contained .pyc file that imports a specified module therein. (Conveniently, Python's bytecode parser ignores anything after an end marker, and the zipimport mechanism skips any