On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 8:17 PM, Alex Walters <tritium-list@sdamon.com> wrote:

As a user of certbot, docker, conda, nix, and guix are non-starters.  I'm not depending on those tools for my production server (and while docker may be a dependency for some people, that is hardly universal).  Adding heavyweight technical dependencies are problematic if your goal is to get everyone using your software.  You're better off with cx_freeze or pyinstaller binaries downloaded from a website or a PPA-like-system to add to system package managers, which are not perfect solutions either.

I would emphasize this point.

The real question here is what use case you're targeting. Many sysadmin and devops type folks will simply never *ever* use a language-specific package manager; they'll tell you that for them, your tool or library doesn't exist unless it's accessible via the operating-system package manager (RPM, .deb, etc.). Language-specific package managers are at best for the users of the systems those people maintain, to handle application dependencies (and the sysadmin/devops people try, in their ideal world, to push for those to be replaced by custom system-package-manager repositories).

So it's likely that there's not much utility in having this be installable via the language-specific Python packaging toolchain, because your target users will refuse to take advantage of that toolchain.

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