[Pythonedu-wg] Edu bundle

[Daniel Pope]

I'd be keen to have feedback as soon as possible on what works and what
doesn't.

On Tue, 21 Jun 2016 08:53 Carrie Anne Philbin, <carrieanne at raspberrypi.org>
wrote:

> Thanks so much! Would be great to work with teachers on at PyconUK :)
>
> When might you need some teachers or technicians working in schools to
> test? There are a few in this working group. If you let us know what you
> would like us to do and what to report back, we can do so.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Carrie Anne.
>
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 8:35 AM, Daniel Pope <lord.mauve at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> I don't have a huge amount of Windows expertise myself.
>>
>> I'll write down a list of steps I used to build the bundle in the next
>> few days. Then we can decide on an approach for automating it. I guess we
>> would rely on a system installation of Python that write Python scripts to
>> download/install everything.
>>
>> A separate project almost, would be to compile better icons. The approach
>> taken for the pip launchers is to compile a small C program and commit
>> the binaries in the repo
>> <https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/tree/master/setuptools> - then
>> Python code tacks extra data onto the end that the C program knows how to
>> read. (This launcher
>> <https://bitbucket.org/vinay.sajip/distlib/src/tip/PC/> is also used by
>> some packages - probably a setuptools vs distutils thing). My C is a bit
>> rusty but I could probably take a stab at this.
>>
>> I realise I built this bundle with 64-bit stuff - is anyone likely to
>> have a 32-bit computer lying around?
>>
>> On Tue, 21 Jun 2016 at 07:10 Amit Saha <amitsaha.in at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 7:34 AM, Daniel Pope <lord.mauve at gmail.com>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> I would like to contribute to automating it.. unless you have
>>> immediate deadlines for this. Do you need extensive Windows knowledge
>>> for this?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> >
>>> > 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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