[Python-Dev] Better support for consuming vendored packages (original) (raw)

Oleg Broytman phd at phdru.name
Thu Mar 22 13:48:21 EDT 2018


Hi!

On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 09:58:07AM -0700, Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc at gmail.com> wrote:

Not all consumers of Python packages wish to consume Python packages in the common pip install <package>

IMO pip is for developers. To package and distribute end-user applications there are rpm, dpkg/deb, PyInstaller, cx_Freeze, py2exe (+ installer like NSIS or InnoSetup), py2app, etc...

Most of them pack a copy of Python interpreter and necessary parts of stdlib, so there is no problem with sys.path and wrong imports.

Gregory

Oleg.

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