[Python.NET] pip and wheel

[Kyle Rocha]

I would like to continue to see proper mono support available.

That does lead me to some questions about that unmanaged exports package.
1. Does that stuff work correctly when you're using something like
monodevelop?

2. Why was the change made to use that over the manually written clr
bindings? Was it only to simplify the binding process?

/ Kyle
On Nov 26, 2013 9:18 AM, "davidacoder" <davidacoder at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
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> I think one major barrier for easier adoption of pythondotnet right now is
> setup, i.e. how you get to a point where you can just use it.
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> I think there are a couple of issues:
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> - the download page on sourceforge is confusing. There are five folders on
> the first page that don’t seem to follow some common naming scheme. Three
> have a pythonnet version in it, one doesn’t have any version in the name
> and the last one refers to a CLR version. If I land there I just don’t know
> what to do next.
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> - There doesn’t seem to be a win x64 download, which I would assume to be
> the major version in use right now.
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> - In general the builds seem to be old
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> - There don’t seem to be mono builds (although, should there be?)
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> At the same time I feel that with the new package stuff happening in the
> general python world the idea of having a binary zip file download is
> getting old in any case.
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> One potentially elegant way around this is to provide binary wheels for
> pythondotnet that are hosted on pypi.python.org for windows. I don’t know
> how the mono stuff would work and multi-platform things, though… In any
> case, I think it should be feasible at that point to simply use pip to
> install pythondotnet:
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> pip install pythondotnet
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> and that would do the trick. And now that pip is bundled in the default
> python distribution, I feel that would essentially solve the distribution
> problem completely, right? I think such a pip install should just make the
> clr module available for import. I am less sure whether such a wheel
> install should also put npython.exe somewhere onto the path (scripts
> folder?).
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> Thoughts?
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> Thanks,
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> David
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