[Distutils] wheels or system packages for pip on ubuntu

[Reinout van Rees]

On 05-09-14 10:00, Andrew Straw wrote:
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> On 5 Sep 2014, at 9:52 AM, Reinout van Rees <reinout at vanrees.org> wrote:
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>> So... that's why Wheels started to sound nice. And compiling wheels yourself and placing them on a server in a directory with various wheels for a specific distribution... Sounds like the most standard option right now.
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> I haven’t tried it myself but this may also be interesting: https://github.com/spotify/dh-virtualenv

Agreed, looks interesting. I watched the youtube video of the europython 
Berlin talk about it.

In a way it was what caused my original question :-)
Why? With dh-virtualenv you can have a debian package with debian 
dependencies and a virtualenv all ready to go.

So... what do you do with debian-level dependencies and how do you tell 
pip you've got them? Or can you perhaps easily use wheels and get those 
into the virtualenv and thus into the debian package?


So I started thinking and started asking :-)

My current thinking is as follows:

- One or two basic ubuntu-based boxes: basic ubuntu with a special 
custom package that pre-installs necessities such as memcached, libjpeg 
and postgres bindings.

- Wheels created for those one or two basic boxes, in a directory per 
box-type. This way you have some machinery in just one place where you 
can create wheels at will for your boxes.

- Regular pip (or buildout once it supports wheels, I haven't checked 
yet if it does) to manage the python packages.



Reinout

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