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Re: Packaging and deployment of standalone Python applications?

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Date 2015-09-17 17:38 +1000
Subject Re: Packaging and deployment of standalone Python applications?
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.688.1442475526.8327.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 5:24 PM, Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> wrote:
> IMHO this is one of the lacks of CPython. Distributing source is not always
> practical, especially if the project involves modules written in C, or a
> large number of 3rd party libraries. To provide linux binaries as .rpm and
> .deb, as suggested elsewhere in this thread, is even more cumbersome than
> binaries in this case - you'd have to set the right dependencies for a huge
> variety of distributions, such that the package manager pulls, e.g.
> "python-pillow" on one distro and "libpillow" on another etc. A well
> maintained portable distribution for all major platforms could substantially
> ease that out.

If you want to know what's state of the art there - and even more so:
if you want to push the state of the art - join the distutils-sig
mailing list:

https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig

This is where these kinds of questions will be discussed, and
(hopefully!) solved.

ChrisA

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Packaging and deployment of standalone Python applications? Kristian Rink <kawazu428@gmail.com> - 2015-09-13 23:58 -0700
  Re: Packaging and deployment of standalone Python applications? dieter <dieter@handshake.de> - 2015-09-15 07:46 +0200
  Re: Packaging and deployment of standalone Python applications? Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2015-09-15 08:17 +0200
  Re: Packaging and deployment of standalone Python applications? marco.nawijn@colosso.nl - 2015-09-15 04:25 -0700
    Re: Packaging and deployment of standalone Python applications? Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-09-15 14:04 +0200
  Re: Packaging and deployment of standalone Python applications? Kristian Rink <kawazu428@gmail.com> - 2015-09-16 21:29 +0200
    Re: Packaging and deployment of standalone Python applications? Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2015-09-17 09:24 +0200
      Re: Packaging and deployment of standalone Python applications? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-09-17 17:38 +1000
  Re: Packaging and deployment of standalone Python applications? Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-09-17 00:19 +0200
  Re: Packaging and deployment of standalone Python applications? Kristian Rink <kawazu428@gmail.com> - 2015-09-17 08:23 +0200
  Re: Packaging and deployment of standalone Python applications? Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-09-17 11:06 +0200
  Re: Packaging and deployment of standalone Python applications? m <mvoicem@gmail.com> - 2015-09-17 12:39 +0200
  Re: Packaging and deployment of standalone Python applications? Kristian Rink <kawazu428@gmail.com> - 2015-09-17 12:36 +0200

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