On Fri, Nov 20, 2020, 11:00 AM Paul Moore <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 at 15:44, Ricky Teachey <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I was reading the pyinstaller thread and had this idea but didn't want > to hijack. > > > > Maybe a wild idea, and very possible totally impractical or hopelessly > complex, but: could the existing pypi infrastructure be leveraged into a > set of platform-specific app stores? Maybe maybe we could make it as simple > as a single line in a pyproject.toml file. > > It could be done, but I'm not sure what you are thinking of when you > say "the existing PyPI infrastructure". I was thinking that the pypi website could potentially act as the "home" of the store and the index could provide the basis of the store index. But I guess now that you mention it there's not necessarily a very compelling reason to marry the idea to pypi. Aside from making it "official". My main thought is python could really use an easy story to tell for platform installable apps. Pypi and pip feels like it is almost already exactly what is needed in terms of an app store, it just doesn't yet have a way to install on platforms without a bunch of upfront work. An app store tied to pypi and pip might be able to totally remove that friction. I get that you're saying it's not something you can do yourself. So I > guess let's see if anyone wants to take it on :-) > > Paul > Yeah I'm definitely not the guy. Only hope here was to inspire someone else. >
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