[Python-Dev] OneGet provider for Python (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Sat Nov 15 11:03:55 CET 2014

On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 18:12:59 -0600 Vincent Povirk <madewokherd at gmail.com> wrote:

I have been following OneGet development very closely, and I have volunteered to create a OneGet provider for installing Python packages. Normally, I would keep quiet about this sort of thing until I have actual code that works, but since no one else on the OneGet seems as interested in doing it, and the Python community (if this mailing list is anything to go by) doesn't know what to make of this stuff, I figured I should try to open lines of communication before I start essentially making decisions on this community's behalf.

So, the main advantage of a Python provider is that you would be able to do things like: > Install-Package -Provider Python -Name Pygments or > Install-Package Pygments-2.0.1-py3-none-any.whl and OneGet would be able to bootstrap (if necessary) the Python provider itself, Python 3.x, and pip, and use pip to install the .whl. (I'm unclear at the moment on whether pip is necessary to install a .whl, but currently it looks to be the best thing to lean on for the job of installing/uninstalling things). My end goal is to be able to package a Python application such that an end-user on Windows (who doesn't know anything about Python) can easily install it, without either of us having to think about how all the dependencies are going to get there. I think that the best approach for the moment is to lean heavily on pip for installing/uninstalling things, while duplicating other tasks (such as listing installed packages, querying information about package files, searching PyPI) in C# so that they do not require a Python environment. If anyone has questions or concerns about this, please let me know. Keep in mind that I am not subscribed to the mailing list and will have to be CC'd.

If you don't get any answers here, I would suggest posting on distutils-sig: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig There's a gmane mirror as well: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.distutils.devel/

Regards

Antoine.

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