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

[Nathaniel Smith]

Well, it sounds like you have an answer to the question of whether the
cpython developers are interested in making official snap releases, but of
course this doesn't stop you making unofficial snap releases, and simple
standalone python distributions can be pretty handy. I just wanted to point
out that virtualenv support is a very important feature of python builds,
and it may be a challenge to support this within the app-as-container
paradigm, because it requires that the python interpreter be able to locate
itself, copy itself to arbitrary directories, and then run the copy. (Or
maybe it's fine, dunno. And python 3 has some changes that might make it
friendlier than python 2 in this regard.)

-n

On May 16, 2017 8:09 AM, "Martin Wimpress" <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?
>
> [1] https://snapcraft.io/
> [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-bDzr4gYUU
> [3] https://snapcraft.io/docs/core/install
> [4] https://build.snapcraft.io/
>
> --
> Regards, Martin.
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