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

Petr Viktorin encukou at gmail.com
Tue May 23 04:27:02 EDT 2017

On 05/23/2017 01:34 AM, Brett Cannon wrote:

On Tue, 16 May 2017 at 08:08 Martin Wimpress <martin.wimpress at canonical.com <mailto:martin.wimpress at canonical.com>> wrote: 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?

So the problem with adding Snap is it's yet one more thing for us to create at release time. And if we do this for Snap are there competitors from e.g. Fedora that people would want supported?

Not Fedora per se, Flatpak [0] (formerly xdg-app) is distro-agnostic [1].

[0] http://flatpak.org/ [1] http://flatpak.org/faq.html

More information about the Python-Dev mailing list