[ChrisArgyle]

> The way I see it, pip and virtualenv are not practical for deployment or distribution. You shouldn't have to download and install things during a production deployment. I even created a tool (https://github.com/objectified/vdist) to mitigate this problem, but it will always be a hack when doing it this way.

Please excuse my newbness but doesn't python wheel do most of this (besides compiling to a single package)?

[sametmax]

Not under linux, but it's coming. Alhough they have no way to include big dependancies like QT and the like.