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Is there a good way to build a portable package containing dependencies for installing on an airgapped system?

ctrlc-root 7y ago
Take a look at Twitter PEX. I gave a short talk on it earlier this year (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abnwINA50DE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abnwINA50DE).
- starpilot 7y ago
  Nice but ugh. Python packaging world really sucks. In R I was able to do this very easily with minicran.
- j88439h84 7y ago
  Pex doesn't support pep 517 but shiv does.
ipsum2 7y ago
Another one: https://github.com/facebookincubator/xar https://github.com/facebookincubator/xar "XAR lets you package many files into a single self-contained executable file. This makes it easy to distribute and install... A popular example is Python application archives that include all Python source code files, as well as native shared libraries, configuration files, other data."
viraptor 7y ago
Do you depend on any native library? If not, you should be able to install everything in a virtualenv and move that whole directory.
j88439h84 7y ago
Make a wheel or use shiv. Either is very easy.
- starpilot 7y ago
  Is it possible to build a wheel for a unix platform on a windows machine, when the package and some of its dependencies have compiled portions? I'm trying to build a wheel with deps for exchangelib and have been struggling.
yegle 7y ago
Have a repo for your code, vendorize every thing, build a binary including Python interpreter using a build system that emphasize on reproducibility (e.g. Bazel). Alternatively you can build a docker image using Bazel (for reproducibility) and use tools like Droot to chroot into the image then run.
smitty1e 7y ago
For certain values of 'good', containers seem to enjoy popularity.
potatochup 7y ago
Shivs as mentioned elsewhere, pyoxidize is also worth a look
acemarke 7y ago
Surprised no one has mentioned cx_Freeze yet: https://cx-freeze.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ https://cx-freeze.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ It's worked pretty well for us on both Linux and Windows environments.

Take a look at Twitter PEX. I gave a short talk on it earlier this year (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abnwINA50DE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abnwINA50DE).

starpilot 7y ago
Nice but ugh. Python packaging world really sucks. In R I was able to do this very easily with minicran.
j88439h84 7y ago
Pex doesn't support pep 517 but shiv does.

ipsum2 7y ago

Another one: https://github.com/facebookincubator/xar https://github.com/facebookincubator/xar "XAR lets you package many files into a single self-contained executable file. This makes it easy to distribute and install... A popular example is Python application archives that include all Python source code files, as well as native shared libraries, configuration files, other data."

viraptor 7y ago

Do you depend on any native library? If not, you should be able to install everything in a virtualenv and move that whole directory.

j88439h84 7y ago

Make a wheel or use shiv. Either is very easy.

starpilot 7y ago
Is it possible to build a wheel for a unix platform on a windows machine, when the package and some of its dependencies have compiled portions? I'm trying to build a wheel with deps for exchangelib and have been struggling.

yegle 7y ago

Have a repo for your code, vendorize every thing, build a binary including Python interpreter using a build system that emphasize on reproducibility (e.g. Bazel). Alternatively you can build a docker image using Bazel (for reproducibility) and use tools like Droot to chroot into the image then run.

smitty1e 7y ago

For certain values of 'good', containers seem to enjoy popularity.

potatochup 7y ago

Shivs as mentioned elsewhere, pyoxidize is also worth a look

acemarke 7y ago

Surprised no one has mentioned cx_Freeze yet: https://cx-freeze.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ https://cx-freeze.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ It's worked pretty well for us on both Linux and Windows environments.