-----Original Message----- From: Chad Smith <chadsmith27@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, March 1, 2019 1:33 PM To: Alex Walters <tritium-list@sdamon.com> Subject: Re: [Distutils] Re: PEP-582 concerns

I was not aware that discuss.python.org <http://discuss.python.org> was being used now. I started a thread there on PEP-582: https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-582-python-local-packages-directory/963. Would you mind reposting your response there?

Yes, I actually would greatly mind posting on discuss.python.org, that site is itself contentious. Discussion mediums have been discussed to death, I won't rehash it here (nor do I want to open that issue back up), but I posted on the list for a reason.

On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 2:30 AM Alex Walters <tritium-list@sdamon.com <mailto:tritium-list@sdamon.com> > wrote:

I kind of feel that "third party tool can/will use this feature" is orthogonal to "how the interpreter behaves out of the box" - unless I misunderstand and you are suggesting python grow support for launching entrypoints from the python executable.

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-----Original Message----- From: chadsmith27@gmail.com <mailto:chadsmith27@gmail.com> <chadsmith27@gmail.com <mailto:chadsmith27@gmail.com> > Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2019 12:42 PM To: distutils-sig@python.org <mailto:distutils-sig@python.org> Subject: [Distutils] Re: PEP-582 concerns

Running entrypoints/executables in the bin directory has been solved by the node community with npx (https://www.npmjs.com/package/npx):

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Executes <command> either from a local node_modules/.bin, or from a central cache, installing any packages needed in order for <command> to run.

I built similuar support into pipx as well, so `pipx run ENTRYPOINT` will search the appropriate `__pypackages__` path for the bin dir and the entrypoint. This is not the only way to solve it, but it seems to be working for the node.

Indeed, massively popular projects like `create-react-app` (https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app#quick-overview) include npx as their sole installation instructions. -- Distutils-SIG mailing list -- distutils-sig@python.org <mailto:distutils- sig@python.org> To unsubscribe send an email to distutils-sig-leave@python.org <mailto:distutils-sig-leave@python.org> https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/distutils-sig.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/distutils-

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