[Python-ideas] Distribution agnostic Python project packaging

[Barry Warsaw]

On Oct 27, 2016, at 02:50 PM, James Pic wrote:

>Now I'm fully aware of distribution specific packaging solutions like
>dh-virtualenv shared by Spotify but here's my mental problem: I love to
>learn and to hack. I'm always trying now distributions and I rarely run the
>one that's in production in my company and when I'm deploying personal
>projects I like funny distributions like arch, Alpine Linux,  or
>interesting paas solutions such as cloudfoundry, openshift, rancher and
>many others.
>
>So that's the idea I'm trying to share: I'd like to b able to build a file
>with my dependencies and my project in it.

You might want to look at the Snap ecosystem.  It's fairly new, but it is
cross-distro and cross-arch, and in many ways a very cool way to build
self-contained applications where you control all the dependencies.  You don't
have to worry so much about each distribution's peculiarities, and Python gets
first-class support[*].

There are lots of technical and philosophical aspects to Snaps that are
off-topic for this mailing list, so I'll just point you to where you can
explore it on your own:

http://snapcraft.io/

Disclosure: I work for Canonical in my day job, which invented the technology,
but it is in very large part an open source community project.

Cheers,
-Barry

[*] In fact, the nice convenience front-end to building snaps is a Python 3
application.
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