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by mbreese 4010 days ago
It can be a pain when trying to distribute software to users (non-python programmers). What I usually end up having to do is distribute virtualenv with my code, and include a simple Makefile/build script to setup the venv. Invariably someone tries to then move that directory and everything ends up getting screwed up until I can tell them to run "make clean all".

I'm not too sure that this would end up being any easier, but maybe...
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deckiedan 4010 days ago
What I'm doing with streetsign[1] is including a download virtualenv step in the setup script[2]. The virtualenv gets set up in `.virtualenv/`, so most users won't even see it.

[1] http://streetsign.org.uk/ [2] https://bitbucket.org/dfairhead/streetsign-server/src/5b359a...

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perlgeek 4009 days ago
You can build debian packages that way; dh-virtualenv (https://github.com/spotify/dh-virtualenv) makes it quite easy to pack a full virtualenv into a .deb.
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bpicolo 4010 days ago
http://nuitka.net/
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mbreese 4009 days ago
Does that work with Cython compiled dependencies?
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