On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 04:55:26PM +0000, אלעזר wrote:
A library in PyPi still requires installing it, which undermine many of the benefits. It won't help me with my gist/activestate recipe, code that I send to a friend, etc. I want to lower the barrier of inexperienced users.
When you say users, are you talking about completely non-technical end-users who are not programmers at all? In their case, you should bundle the application and all its dependencies into a single frozen .exe file (for Windows), or equivalent for other platforms. Otherwise, the users you are talking about are *programmers*, or at least "technical people" (sys admin, etc), who can be expected to run a couple of commands to install needed dependencies. Perhaps they are inexperienced, and still learning. In that case, teaching them to use pip is a good thing, especially since it isn't that hard: python3 -m ensurepip pip install foo bar baz # whatever your dependencies are (In principle at least. In practice, I have found pip to be not quite as foolproof as advertised. But that's not something the std lib can fix.) https://docs.python.org/3/library/ensurepip.html -- Steve