Hi, I have to distribute a Python application which relies on an external library, and I'm not very fluent in this kind of stuff with Python (I come from the Java world where I would have used the Maven build tool to create an "assembly with dependencies" of all it is needed to run the app), so I was wondering if someone here could give me some suggestions :-)
The external library is generally not present on the machines where I have to distribute my app, and the set of machines on which I have to distribute this application is not known a priori (it is just known they are Unix systems). In fact by means of SSH I will have to copy (and install) the app+library and make it runnable onto the specified destination(s). My question is: how would you do that? At the moment my current solution is to make a tarball of the sources of my app + the "distutils" archive of the external library, copy all into the target machine, decompress and install via distutils(*) the external library, setup some PYTHONPATH stuff on the destination machine, and finally be able to launch the application. (*) specifying a prefix into the user home, as I'm not root there So in the end I was wondering if there is a more elegant way of doing this because, as I said before, I'm not very experienced in these kind of tasks in Python. Thanks in advance for any suggestion or comment. Alessio Pace. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
