[Tutor] Distributing Python Code for Commercial Porpoises?

[Eike Welk]

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.

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