On 14 September 2017 at 08:48, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com> wrote:

There are likely tools to automate these steps.

wagon, for example: https://github.com/cloudify-cosmo/wagon#create-packages

(Although then you have to bootstrap wagon in the destination environment to handle the install process)

...

We used The Grand Unified Python Benchmark Suite https://hg.python.org/benchmarks in the past, and found that one was very easy to use, with far less dependency, and can be simply zipped and deployed easily.

Yeah, you are right. But it was more complex to add new dependencies and update dependencies. As a consequence, we tested softwares which were 5 years old... Not really revelant.

It would be useful to provide instructions in the README on how to:

1. Use "pip download --no-binary :all: -r requirements.txt archive_dir" to get the dependencies on an internet connected machine
2. Use "pip install --no-index --find-links archive_dir -r requirements.txt" to install from the unpacked archive instead of the internet

Potentially, performance could gain a subcommand to do the initial download, and a "performance venv create" option to specify a local directory to use instead of the index server when installing dependencies.

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia