[Python-Dev] Snap Python for simple distribution across multiple Linux distros (original) (raw)

Martin Wimpress martin.wimpress at canonical.com
Tue May 16 06:31:42 EDT 2017

Hi all,

I work at Canonical as part of the engineering team developing Ubuntu and Snapcraft [1] and I'm a long time Python fan :-)

We've created snaps, a platform that enables projects to directly control delivery of software updates to users. This video of a lightning talk by dlang developers at DConf2017 [2] shows how they've made good use of snaps to distribute their compiler. They found the release channels particularly useful so their users can track a specific release.

Is there someone here who'd be interested in doing the same for Python?

[1] https://snapcraft.io/ [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-bDzr4gYUU [3] https://snapcraft.io/docs/core/install [4] https://build.snapcraft.io/

-- Regards, Martin.

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