Re: [Distutils] [setuptools] best way to create offline install bundles?

Ronald Oussoren Tue, 12 Sep 2006 00:57:17 -0700


On Sep 11, 2006, at 6:34 PM, primco wrote:

Setuptools would have to packaged up with TG or Pylons. All programs need to be self contained and can only depend on the standard library in the system wide install. No 'automatic download' would be allowed either. Basically,
the whole thing needs to be copied and run. This is a basic feature of
Python scripts. It's unfortunate that things have become so complex that
this is no longer possible.

Is that ("All programs need to be self contained") some kind of company policy? Not that I disagree, self contained installations can make sysadmin and upgrades a lot easier.

Python scripts can still be copied and run, but that hasn't been true for complex, or even less complex, projects for ages. Setuptools makes live easier for the most part: you don't have to bundle (or rewrite) other libraries and still have a pretty simple install because the dependencies are written down in a machine-readable way and a tool (setuptools) can act on that.

IIRC both the setuptools documentation and the list archives contain descriptions on how to achieve multiple self-contained python environments.


Ronald

Ronald Oussoren wrote:
On Saturday, September 09, 2006, at 04:07AM, primco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
I would love this as well, as I'm in a situation where setuptools is
forbidden and I need to distribute Python apps like TurboGears and Pylons
with loads of dependencies.
Why is setuptools forbidden? Is the the automatic download of packages or
is there something else?

Setuptools is more than easy_install, it is also a package that has
usefull future for packages, such as entrypoints. These are used by
TurboGears (and I don't know Pylons), so not installing setuptools at all
isn't really an option.
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