auto installing dependencies with pip to run a python zip application ?

[Irmen de Jong]

On 09/26/2017 10:49 PM, Paul Moore wrote:
> On 26 September 2017 at 19:47, Irmen de Jong <irmen at nospam.xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> Any thoughts on this? Is it a good idea or something horrible? Has
>> someone attempted something like this before perhaps?
> 
> When I've done this, I've bundled my dependencies in with my zipapp.
> Of course that's trickier if you have binary dependencies like pillow.

Yeah I've considered that for a moment but I think sometimes you've also
got to deal with licensing issues. I'd rather avoid this.

> What you could do is pip install your binary dependencies into a
> directory in $TEMP using --target, then add that directory to
> sys.path. Probably easier than building a full virtualenv. Bundle pip
> with your app if you can't assume your users will have pip available.

Interesting idea, although like this wouldn't I have to download the
dependencies every time I launch my game? (unless I re-use the same
temporary directory every time)


Irmen