July 2017
Beginner to intermediate
340 pages
7h 43m
English
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Packaging and Running Runnerly
Whenthe Python programming language was first released in the early 1990s, a Python application was run by pointing the Python scripts to the interpreter. Everything related to packaging, releasing, and distributing Python projects was done manually. There was no real standard back then, and each project had a long README on how to install it with all its dependencies.
Bigger projects used the system packaging tools to release their work--whether it was Debian packages, RPM packages for Red-Hat Linux distributions, or things like MSI packages under Windows. Eventually, the Python modules from those projects all ended up in the site-packages directory of the Python installation, sometimes after a compilation ...