[Python-Dev] Binary CPython distribution for Linux (original) (raw)

Antonio Cavallo a.cavallo at cavallinux.eu
Thu Jun 26 22:00:38 CEST 2014

I have a little pet project for building rpm of python 2.7 (it should be trivial to port to 3.x):

https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/home:cavallo71:opt-python-modules

If there's enough interest I can help to integrate with python.org.

I understand there may be technical challenges with doing this for some distributions and with producing a universal binary distribution.

Opensuse provides the vm to build binaries for multiple platforms already since a very long time.

Of course Anaconda is oriented towards scientific applications but it is a proof that a pre-build binary installer works and can be simple to use.

Rpm are the "blessed" way to instal software on linux: it supports what most sysadmin expect (easy to list the installed packages, easy to validate if tampering to a package occurred, which file belongs to a package? etc..).

Anaconda might appeal some group of user, but for deployment company-wide rpm is the best technical solution given its integration in linux.

I hope this helps, Antonio

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