[Openstack-operators] Packaging Virtualenvs
Matt Joyce
matt at nycresistor.com
Thu Jun 23 23:40:27 UTC 2016
I want the script to dynamically instantiate the venv is call activate this at execution time and deactivate when done.
On June 23, 2016 5:12:07 PM EDT, Doug Hellmann <doug at doughellmann.com> wrote:
>Excerpts from Silence Dogood's message of 2016-06-23 15:45:34 -0400:
>> I know from conversations that a few folks package their python apps
>as
>> distributable virtualenvs. spotify created dh-virtualenv for this.
>you
>> can do it pretty simply by hand.
>>
>> I built a toolchain for building rpms as distributable virtualenvs
>and that
>> works really well.
>>
>> What I'd like to do is make it so that every app that's built as a
>> virtualenv gets setup to automatically execute at call time in their
>> virtualenv.
>>
>> I see two options:
>>
>> 1) Dynamically generate a wrapper script during build and put it in
>the
>> RPM. Call the wrapper.
>>
>> 2) Created a dependency global module ( as an rpm ) set it as a
>> dependency. And basically it'd be an autoexecuting import that
>> instantiates the virtualenv. it would probably know all it needs to
>> because I am building all my packages to an internal standard. Then
>when
>> building the APP rpm all I need to do is inject an import into the
>import
>> chain if it's being built as a virtualenv. Then I have what are
>> effectively statically compiled python apps.
>>
>> I like 2. But 1 isn't very bad. Both are a little hokey.
>>
>> Was curious if folks might have a preference, or a better idea.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Matt
>
>I'm not sure what you mean by a "wrapper script". If you run the
>Python console script from within the virtualenv you've packaged,
>you shouldn't need to do anything to "activate" that environment
>separately because it should have the correct shebang line.
>
>Are you seeing different behavior?
>
>Doug
>
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