[Python-Dev] Snap Python for simple distribution across multiple Linux distros

[Petr Viktorin]

On 05/23/2017 01:34 AM, Brett Cannon wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 16 May 2017 at 08:08 Martin Wimpress 
> <martin.wimpress at canonical.com <mailto:martin.wimpress at canonical.com>> 
> wrote:
> 
>     Hi all,
> 
>     I work at Canonical as part of the engineering team developing Ubuntu
>     and Snapcraft [1] and I'm a long time Python fan :-)
> 
>     We've created snaps, a platform that enables projects to directly
>     control delivery of software updates to users. This video of a
>     lightning talk by dlang developers at DConf2017 [2] shows how they've
>     made good use of snaps to distribute their compiler. They found the
>     release channels particularly useful so their users can track a
>     specific release.
> 
>     Is there someone here who'd be interested in doing the same for Python?
> 
> 
> So the problem with adding Snap is it's yet one more thing for us to 
> create at release time. And if we do this for Snap are there competitors 
> from e.g. Fedora that people would want supported?

Not Fedora per se, Flatpak [0] (formerly `xdg-app`) is distro-agnostic [1].


[0] http://flatpak.org/
[1] http://flatpak.org/faq.html