> > On Feb 6, 2018, at 12:12 PM, Israel Brewster <isr...@ravnalaska.net> wrote: > > I have been working on writing an Alexa skill which, as part of it, requires > a local web server on the end users machine - the Alexa skill sends commands > to this server, which runs them on the local machine. I wrote this local > server in Flask, and run it using uwsgi, using a command like: "uwsgi > serverconfig.ini". > > The problem is that in order for this to work, the end user must: > > 1) Install python 3.6 (or thereabouts) > 2) Install a number of python modules, and > 3) run a command line (from the appropriate directory) > > Not terribly difficult, but when I think of my target audience (Alexa users), > I could easily see even these steps being "too complicated". I was looking at > pyinstaller to create a simple double-click application, but it appears that > pyinstaller needs a python script as the "base" for the application, whereas > my "base" is uwsgi. Also, I do need to leave a config file accessible for the > end user to be able to edit. Is there a way to use pyinstaller in this > scenario, or perhaps some other option that might work better to package > things up?
So at the moment, since there have been no suggestions for packaging, I'm getting by with a bash script that: a) Makes sure python 3 is installed, prompting the user to install it if not b) Makes sure pip and virtualenv are installed, and installs them if needed c) Sets up a virtualenv in the distribution directory d) Installs all needed modules in the virtualenv - this step requires that dev tools are installed, a separate install. e) modifies the configuration files to match the user and directory, and f) Installs a launchd script to run the uwsgi application This actually seems to work fairly well, and by giving the script a .command extension, which automatically gets associated with terminal under OS X, the end user can simply double-click setup.command without having to go into terminal themselves. The main stumbling block then is the install of python3 - the user still has to manually download and install it in addition to my code, which I'd prefer to avoid - having to install my code separate from the Alexa skill is already an annoyance. As such, I'm considering three possible solutions: 1) Make some sort of installer package that includes the python3 installer 2) Somehow automate the download and install of Python3, or 3) re-write my code to be python 2 compatible (since python 2 is included with the OS) If anyone has any suggestions on how I could accomplish 1 or 2, I'd appreciate it. Thanks! ----------------------------------------------- Israel Brewster Systems Analyst II Ravn Alaska 5245 Airport Industrial Rd Fairbanks, AK 99709 (907) 450-7293 ----------------------------------------------- > > ----------------------------------------------- > Israel Brewster > Systems Analyst II > Ravn Alaska > 5245 Airport Industrial Rd > Fairbanks, AK 99709 > (907) 450-7293 > ----------------------------------------------- > > > > > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
