On 18.09.2013 13:09, Donald Stufft wrote: > > On Sep 18, 2013, at 3:54 AM, "M.-A. Lemburg" <m...@egenix.com> wrote: > >> Not sure whether this is interesting for anyone, but since I saw some >> threads about bootstrapping pip and setuptools, I though I might >> throw in a tool which does this. >> >> For a while now, we've been making eGenix PyRun available, a Python >> run time that fits into a single file on Unix: >> >> http://www.egenix.com/products/python/PyRun/ >> >> It's a great virtualenv replacement and doesn't rely on the system >> provided Python installation. >> >> Now, to make installation of PyRun even easier, we added an install >> script called install-pyrun: >> >> https://downloads.egenix.com/python/install-pyrun >> >> This script downloads the correct PyRun for the platform and >> then goes on to bootstrap pip and setuptools fully automatically. >> It does this by fetching the most recent versions of these tools >> straight from PyPI, without relying on Python (or PyRun). >> >> The script is a simple bash script and uses curl or wget for >> the fetch operation, so you get certificate checking, HTTPS, >> etc. for free. > > Are you suggesting this as an alternative to PEP453 or just advertising > it exists?
Not sure. It works today and is so easy to use, you simply forget about all the complications it solves :-) Upside: It works with Python 2.x and 3.x. Downside: Unix only. For Windows, using Python would be easier, perhaps using curl and pycurl to do the SSL heavy lifting: http://curl.haxx.se/download.html http://pycurl.sourceforge.net/ https://github.com/pycurl-devs/pycurl/blob/master/examples/retriever.py It should be possible to wrap all that into an .exe using py2exe for Python 2.x and cx_Freeze for Python 3.x. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Sep 18 2013) >>> Python Projects, Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope/Plone.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ 2013-09-11: Released eGenix PyRun 1.3.0 ... http://egenix.com/go49 2013-09-20: PyCon UK 2013, Coventry, UK ... 2 days to go 2013-09-28: PyDDF Sprint ... 10 days to go eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
