[Pythonedu-wg] Edu bundle

[Nicholas H.Tollervey]

You're a star! :-)

On 20/06/16 22:34, Daniel Pope wrote:
> I made a thing:
> 
> https://github.com/lordmauve/edubundle/releases/tag/0.1-beta
> 
> I think it should just unzip to a USB stick and you're away... you've
> obviously got things like Pygame Zero, Python Repl, Mu, a command prompt
> in which you can use pip etc. IPython Notebook is in there for more
> advanced stuff like graph plotting.
> 
> This was mainly a learning experience for me, and to see how it can be
> done. The real work will be in automating the building of it and
> polishing up the rough edges. 
> 
> This was made much easier because various difficult dependencies
> (Pygame, PyQt) are shipping or working on Windows wheels. Also for the
> most part Python itself is quite happy without an absolute path (it has
> to be relative so that it can be simply unzipped or mounted as different
> drive letters). However pip creates binary executables for command line
> programs that do not, by default, contain relative paths - I think that
> could be changed.
> 
> Windows .lnk files present additional problems. A good idea would be to
> use the setuptools stuff to create little stub binaries that launch
> Python with the right path config, plus contain an appropriate icon
> resource.
> 
> Another avenue for improvement, now that PyQt is in the bundle, would be
> to write some additional GUI tools to make it a bit easier to do cool
> things - perhaps a "piptitude" GUI for pip?
> 
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