[Tutor] Distributing Python Code for Commercial Porpoises?

[David Hutto]

On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Eike Welk <eike.welk at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hello Alan!
>
> On Sunday August 8 2010 10:10:20 Alan Gauld wrote:
>> Yes thats a good point. Most books (including mine) focus on how to
>> write code. Very few tell you how to distrubute it! And that's not
>> just
>> in Python, most programming books are the same.
>>
>> Interesting.
>>
>> Alan G.
>
> Yes, I want to endorse that!
>
> Distributing your software is IMHO a worthy subject for any Python website or
> book. Especially because there is this idea, that all important components for
> software development are included in Python.

Four words... Software is python's propaganda.

>
> With Distutils, EasyInstall (*.egg), and Python Package Index there really
> exist an integrated build system with installer, a package manager, and a
> networked software repository.
>
> Additionally with Virtualenv or Buildout one can build encapsulated
> environments for testing or deployment, without fear for conflicting library
> versions.
>
> Someone however needs to find out how these components fit together, and then
> write a nice introduction on the subject.
>
>
> Eike.
>
>
> Links to the mentioned projects for reference:
>
> Distutils:   http://docs.python.org/distutils/
> EasyInstall: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools
>             http://pypi.python.org/pypi/distribute
> Virtualenv:  http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv
> Buildout:    http://www.buildout.org/
> Python Package Index: http://pypi.python.org/pypi
> _______________________________________________
> Tutor maillist  -  Tutor at python.org
> To unsubscribe or change subscription options:
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
>